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Ashbyburg, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hanson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42456. It stands on Pond River. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun quadrangle. It stands 446 feet above sea level.

Ashbyburg within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Ashbyburg between 1999 and 2019, burning about 151 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 May 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMILE MARKE
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 November 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPASCAL KING RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashbyburg in 1 storm report in 2019: 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 2019FloodAshbyburg-Flooding of the Pond River affected roads near Ashbyburg.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Jewel City0.9 miles13
Chelsea (historical)3.2 miles14
New Salem (historical)3.2 miles14
Vandetta6.5 miles12
Hanson10.1 miles12
Oakliff Store (historical)10.5 miles14
West Hanson10.7 miles14
Anton12.7 miles12

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 AshbyburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690037The 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 486078. 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.