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Athertonville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hodgenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42748. It stands on Knob Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Haven quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Athertonville within Larue County

On record in Athertonville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Athertonville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 76 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 ceremony8
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
17 August 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAbraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic SiteKNOB CREEK
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURST FIRE
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1998Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Athertonville: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Blue Gap RoadcutClayProspect
Highway 84 RoadcutClayProspect
Rolling Fork RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athertonville in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Flash FloodAthertonville-Heavy rainfall caused Knob Creek to overflow its banks near Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home in northern LaRue County. Debris from flood waters washed into Bardstown Road (U.S. Route 31E), blocking it for a short time.
September 2003Flash FloodAthertonville-The Rolling Fork River was out of its banks and approaching the doors of some homes.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindAthertonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
Lyons2.9 miles9
White City (historical)4.5 miles8
Leafdale5.9 miles8
Roanoke6.1 miles10
Gleanings6.5 miles9
Carter (historical)8.1 miles18
Hodgenville8.4 miles8
Jericho8.4 miles8

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 AthertonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690042The 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 486117. 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.