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Asphalt, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brownsville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42210. It stands on Little Beaverdam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brownsville quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Asphalt within Edmonson County

On record in Asphalt

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Asphalt between 2000 and 2018, burning about 407 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPINKS CEMETERY FIRE
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLEEPY HOLLOW
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHE BRIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Asphalt: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Gully ClayClayProspect
Vincent Prospect PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asphalt in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 1 flood, 1 flash 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
May 2010Flash FloodAsphalt-Segal Rd. was closed between mile marker 4 and 5.
December 2007FloodAsphalt-The Green River at Brownsville crested at 18.8 feet around 0930EST on December 12. Flood stage at Brownsville is 18 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level. The river overflows lock walls and some of the lower banks, along with some agricultural bottom land.

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Segal2.1 miles14
Windyville2.2 miles13
Huff4.1 miles13
Lindseyville4.3 miles13
Brownsville4.4 miles13
Nick4.7 miles13
Black Gold4.9 miles13
Roundhill5.3 miles14

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 AsphaltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4807943The 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 507422. 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.