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Akersville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fountain Run census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42133. It lies near Jack Edward Cosby Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Fountain Run quadrangle.

Akersville within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Akersville between 1997 and 2018, burning about 139 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 March 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 1999Smokingunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
9 February 2018Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROOKS RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Akersville: 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Uranium, Oil Shale, Zinc. 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
Fountain RunZinc, DolomiteProspect1970
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akersville in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2008: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
February 2008HailAkersville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindAkersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Bugtussle3.6 miles11
Fountain Run5.1 miles11
Flippin6.0 miles11
Pikesville (historical)6.8 miles11
Gamaliel7.5 miles11
Freetown7.8 miles11
Lamb7.9 miles9
Gum Tree8.2 miles11

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 AkersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q140472697The 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 485807. 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.