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Atoka, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Danville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40422. The Survey maps it on the Danville quadrangle.

Atoka within Boyle County

On record in Atoka

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 3 records

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 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.

Fires near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Atoka between 1998 and 2006, burning about 35 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined1
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
29 November 1998Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Atoka: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc. 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
Hayden VeinBarium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atoka in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 hail. 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 2017HailAtoka-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Needmore0.8 miles11
Davis Hill1.4 miles14
Harrods Station (historical)3.4 miles14
West Danville3.8 miles14
Alum Springs3.9 miles11
Parksville3.9 miles10
Wilsonville3.9 miles10
Caldwell Manor4.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507425. 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.