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Aetnaville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fordsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42368. The Survey maps it on the Whitesville quadrangle. It stands 482 feet above sea level.

Aetnaville within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Aetnaville between 1997 and 2017, burning about 131 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACKSON FI
9 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Aetnaville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Trestle ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aetnaville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2019Thunderstorm WindAetnaville-A tree was down on Zion Church Road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindAetnaville-Local law enforcement reported several trees down near the town of Deanfield.

Every storm recorded in Ohio County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Deanefield1.3 miles12
Haynesville2.0 miles12
Herbert3.2 miles12
Ralph4.5 miles13
Fordsville4.6 miles11
Magan5.0 miles13
Ellmitch5.7 miles11
Adaburg6.4 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AetnavilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690008The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 485788. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.