Mayfield Electric and Water Systems

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Graves County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301 E. Broadway, Mayfield, 42066
When was it listed? August 2011
Category. building
Census division. Mayfield
National Register reference number. 11000536 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield Electric and Water Systems between 1997 and 2017, burning about 121 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOLO ROADSIDE
4 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRAVES 9008
17 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
14 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 September 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Graves County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mayfield Electric and Water Systems: 4 producers, 2 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Ball Clay, Titanium, Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Jackson Purchase Ball Clay Region	Titanium, Aluminum, Iron, Silica	Producer	1888, 1900
Mayfield Kentucky Ball Clay	Ball Clay	Producer	Kaolinite, Quartz
Riley Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Graves County Mines	Clay	Producer
Hickory Clay Mill	Clay	Producer
Ranch Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this property

60 of 96 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield, the town this property stands in, in 96 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 44 thunderstorm wind, 28 hail, 13 flash flood, 4 flood. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2012	Tornado (EF1)	Mayfield	1 hurt, $350,000	Top wind speeds were estimated near 105 mph. The average path width was 130 yards. Two dozen homes and several businesses received minor damage, mainly to shingles, siding, and fascia. There was moderate damage to one business, which was partially unroofed. Windows were blown out, and cars were moved over. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. A high school football stadium was extensively damaged. The damage path began about one-quarter mile southeast of the Highway 80 and Purchase Parkway intersection. The moderately damaged business was located near the beginning of the damage path. A man was hospitalized after a section of wind-blown roof from the damaged business blew into the room he was in. The man suffered numerous cuts and broken bones. His house was heavily damaged. A 2x4 stud was driven by the wind and became embedded in a living room interior wall. The tornado damage path ended about one-half mile northeast of the intersection of Highways 45 and 121.
March 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	1 hurt, $40,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$150,000	Numerous trees were blown down across northeast, east central, and central Graves County. A wind gust to 62 mph was measured at the Mayfield-Graves County airport. Power was out in some rural locations for over 24 hours. In Mayfield, the roof of an American Legion post was extensively damaged. Damage estimates were near 100,000 dollars to completely repair the roof.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$100,000	A macroburst began on the southwest side of Mayfield and then proceeded east across the south side of Mayfield. Downed trees and power lines were widespread. A few homes were damaged by trees that landed on them. Some very large trees fell across roadways. The width of the macroburst was just over three miles. The damage path continued east-southeast for 26 miles through the Murray area into eastern Calloway County.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$90,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down around the county. Cleanup crews were removing downed trees through the night and the following day. In Mayfield, about a dozen trees and large tree limbs were down throughout the community. Five power poles were snapped. The roof was blown off a baseball dugout, fencing was knocked down, and bleachers were damaged. In the Sedalia area, several trees were down, blocking Highways 381 and 303. A fallen tree damaged a house and a nearby propane tank. Metal was torn off hangars at the Mayfield-Graves County Airport. At least three barns were blown across highways across the county. One person was injured when their vehicle struck a downed tree on U.S. Highway 45 just south of Wingo. The steeple of a church was toppled.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$80,000	The macroburst containing winds up to 95 mph followed a path roughly parallel to Highway 121 across eastern Graves County. The damage path width was just over three miles. Widespread damage occurred in the Sedalia and Farmington areas. The roof was blown off a home. A large metal machine shed was partially unroofed. A number of large oak trees were blown down. A power pole was snapped along State Route 1890. Outdoor furniture was lifted off a deck and blown onto a roadway. The damage path continued into Calloway County.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$75,000	After the tornado lifted, straight-line winds broadened and moved through the south side of Mayfield. The storm survey focused on Macedonia St where multiple large trees were uprooted or snapped, with one tree falling onto a house. Additional tree damage was reported on Backusberg Rd, Tom Dr, and near KY-940. Nearly half of Graves County was without power mid-morning.
March 1997	Flash Flood	Mayfield	$70,000	no account filed
April 2022	Tornado (EF1)	Mayfield	$60,000	A few billboards were damaged. Several metal barns lost roofing. Wooden power poles were leaning. A carport was flipped. A few trees and large branches were blown down. Peak winds were estimated near 90 mph.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$60,000	The rubber roofing of an old motel was partially blown off. Some debris landed on vehicles, but none of the vehicles sustained major damage. Trees and power lines were blown down. A tree landed on a home, causing minor damage.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$60,000	Damaging winds struck the community of Sedalia, where the post office was damaged. Windows were broken, and there was damage to the door and ceiling tiles. Electrical lines were blown down in Mayfield. Numerous trees were blown down, including some that landed on houses.
November 2005	Tornado (F1)	Mayfield	$50,000	This long-track tornado produced only light to moderate damage during the first nine miles of its track in Graves County. Some garages and outbuildings were damaged. Trees were blown down. The tornado first touched down near the South Highland Country Club. The tornado entered the northwest corner of Calloway County near Golo.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$40,000	A few trees and some large limbs were blown down within a two block area. One tree fell on a house, extensively damaging a few rooms of the house.
February 2022	Flash Flood	Mayfield	$35,000	Street flooding was common in Mayfield. Red Duck Creek overflowed its banks, inundating an apartment complex and some surrounding properties.
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$35,000	Numerous large trees were blown down. At one residence, the roof was blown off the front porch, and a tree landed on the house. The roof was heavily damaged, and vinyl siding was punctured. Other homes, pools, and vehicles were damaged by falling trees and limbs.
July 1998	Flash Flood	Mayfield	$30,000	no account filed
March 2019	Flash Flood	Mayfield	$25,000	Flash flooding of Red Duck Creek was concentrated in a two to three block residential area near downtown Mayfield. Emergency services personnel assisted some residents that were affected. Numerous streets and roads were closed in the Mayfield area. Around three to four inches of rain fell during the pre-dawn hours, bringing many creeks out of their banks.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$25,000	Fifteen trees were blown down about 7 miles southwest of Mayfield. Wind gusts in Mayfield were estimated up to 60 mph. Scattered tree limbs were down in Mayfield. Several more trees were down a few miles northeast of Mayfield.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$25,000	Numerous large trees were blown down. Kentucky Highway 58 was blocked by downed trees from near Kentucky 301 to the Marshall County line. Trees landed on power lines. At least a couple of trees landed on vehicles and outbuildings.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$20,000	Lots of large limbs were down. Several trees were snapped. There was minor shingle damage.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$15,000	Trees and power lines were downed in the city of Mayfield.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$15,000	Numerous large tree limbs and a few trees were blown down. Some power lines were brought down by falling trees. The damage was confined to a small residential area on the east side of Mayfield.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$15,000	no account filed
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$10,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$10,000	no account filed
December 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$9,000	Several trees were blown down in the county.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$9,000	Trees and power lines were down.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$5,000	Roof damage was reported at a grocery store.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$5,000	Trees were blown down.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$5,000	A large overhead highway sign was knocked down on the Purchase Parkway near the 25-mile marker at Mayfield. Near Farmington, a carport was blown away.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$5,000	Several trees and large limbs were blown down.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$5,000	no account filed
November 1996	Flash Flood	Mayfield	$5,000	no account filed
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$4,000	A spotter estimated winds gusted from 60 to 70 mph. A few trees were blown down.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$3,000	A few trees were blown down.
April 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$3,000	Two trees were blown down.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$3,000	Power lines were down, and stop lights were out in Mayfield.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$3,000	A large metal awning was wrapped around the front of a restaurant. A tree was split nearby.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$3,000	Several trees were blown down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	$1,000	A few large tree limbs were down.
March 2025	Hail	Mayfield	-	Quarter size hail fell around Mayfield.
May 2025	Hail	Mayfield	-	Penny size hail was estimated south of Mayfield and reported via mPING.
March 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	-	The wind gusted to 65 mph at a Kentucky mesonet site.
July 2019	Flash Flood	Mayfield	-	Flash flooding was occurring at street intersections in Mayfield.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	-	A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 65 mph.
May 2016	Flood	Mayfield	-	Just north of the Mayfield city limits, there were three locations on U.S. Highway 45 with eight to ten inches of water over the road.
May 2015	Heavy Rain	Mayfield	-	A Kentucky mesonet site reported 2.21 inches of rain since midnight.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Mayfield	-	Kentucky Highway 58 at Kentucky 1283 had approximately three feet of running water over the road, and motorists were still trying to drive through it. U.S. Highway 45 South was closed in a low-lying area going into Water Valley due to water over the road. Highway 97 was closed at a bridge between Mayfield and Sedalia. Kentucky Highway 94 was closed near U.S. 45 in Water Valley.
August 2013	Funnel Cloud	Mayfield	-	A small, rope-like funnel cloud extended less than halfway from cloud base to ground level. The funnel cloud was associated with a rain shower or weak thunderstorm. The funnel cloud was photographed by a motorist on Kentucky Highway 80 just west of Mayfield.
December 2011	Flood	Mayfield	-	At least 5 state roads were closed or marked with high water signs.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	-	Wind gusts were estimated from 50 to 60 mph by a trained spotter.
May 2008	Hail	Mayfield	-	Nickel-size hail in Mayfield lasted one and a half minutes. Quarter-size hail was reported eight miles south-southwest of Mayfield.
January 2007	Flash Flood	Mayfield	-	Water was reported over Kentucky Highway 80 near a railroad trestle.
February 2007	Hail	Mayfield	-	Hail covered the ground and roadways.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Mayfield	-	A trained spotter measured 1.8 inches of rain in 25 minutes.
April 2006	Hail	Mayfield	-	Quarter size hail fell in the Mayfield/Clear Springs area. Dime size hail fell in Mayfield and a mile south of the city.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	-	Trees were downed in Mayfield. A gust to 64 MPH was measured by a spotter in Sedalia.
May 2006	Flash Flood	Mayfield	-	More than a dozen homes were evacuated due to flash flooding. Most of the flooding and evacuations were along a street on the city's south side that flooded due to a nearby creek. To the north of Mayfield, emergency management personnel reported two inches of rain was measured in an hour.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	-	Trees were blown down.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Mayfield	-	Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Graves County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Confederate Memorial in Mayfield	0.1 miles	1997
Mayfield Downtown Commercial District	0.2 miles	1984
Mayfield Downtown Commercial District (Boundary Increase)	0.2 miles	1996
U.S. Post Office	0.3 miles	1982
Wooldridge Monuments	0.6 miles	1980
Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield	0.6 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000536 in Record Group 79.
Graves County	All 11 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.