Arnold, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sturgis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42459. It stands on Dyson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sturgis quadrangle.

Arnold within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1907 USGS Morganfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1951 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Arnold between 2000 and 2017, burning about 72 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 ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
23 March 2011	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MANSION FIRE
29 February 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 December 2017	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	H AND H
12 November 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CALI FIRE
12 October 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnold in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnold	$5,000	Several four-foot diameter trees were blown down along County Road 950 between Sturgis and Morganfield.
November 2019	Flood	Arnold	-	A few roads were closed around the county, including Highway 359.

Every storm recorded in Union 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pride	2.1 miles	14
Cullen	2.2 miles	14
Kern Orchard	2.9 miles	14
Eberly (historical)	2.9 miles	14
Bordley	3.0 miles	13
Shrote	3.3 miles	14
Sturgis	4.2 miles	14
Yuba	4.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507415. 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.