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Amandaville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Puncheon Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Amandaville quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Amandaville within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Amandaville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,072 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
28 June 2012Recreation and ceremony24 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILSON
21 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKENNETH BLEDSOE
9 March 2001Smoking3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism845 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2016Debris and open burning4.1 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREENBRIAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amandaville in 3 storm reports in 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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 2019Flash FloodAmandaville-It was reported that 12 roads had to be closed throughout the county from a combination of flash flooding, areal flooding, and river flooding.
June 2019FloodAmandaville-Water was flowing over Highway 704 at typical flood prone locations.
June 2019Flash FloodAmandaville-Highway 704 is closed due to water running over the roadway between mile markers 7 and 9.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Bakerton3.5 miles10
Big Renox4.5 miles8
Little Renox (historical)5.4 miles8
Claywell5.5 miles10
Sugar Grove (historical)6.1 miles8
Lewis Creek (historical)6.7 miles10
Dougan Town7.2 miles10
Burkesville8.0 miles10

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 AmandavilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4739810The 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 507392. 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.

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.