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Aurora, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fairdealing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42048. It stands on Terrapin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fairdealing quadrangle.

Aurora within Marshall County

On record in Aurora

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

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.

Photographs

4 photographs, 2020

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Scene at the Hitching Post, a country store, ice-cream shop, and souvenir venue in Aurora, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border and the Land Between the Lakes, a bucolic National Recreation Area on narrow ridge between Barkley Lake and Kentucky Lake, both manmade from waters below dams created by the Tennessee Valley Authority, that flow into both Kentucky and Tennessee
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Aurora between 1997 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
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
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON 26
30 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaSPRITE
28 May 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON
24 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON
12 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2011Recreation and ceremony81 acresLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaHIGGINS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 Aurora: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
Fort Payne ChertSilicaProspect
Jonathan Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aurora in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2017: 5 hail, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2010FloodAurora$30,000High water levels on Kentucky Lake caused flooding of lakeshore docking facilities, boat ramps, and lake access roads. Many lakeshore resorts and campgrounds were closed due to flooding of their facilities. Marinas on the lake were closed, and some docks were damaged. Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park experienced flooding of low-lying areas, including breakwaters. The Coast Guard closed parts of Kentucky Lake to all recreational boating.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindAurora$10,000Several trees were blown down.
April 2006HailAurora-Golf ball size hail fell at the Kenlake State Resort Park on Kentucky Lake.
January 2002Thunderstorm WindAurora-Highway department officials reported two trees were down over a road.
March 2017HailAurora-no account filed
June 2015HailAurora-no account filed
February 2012HailAurora-no account filed
June 2011HailAurora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Union Ridge (historical)1.6 miles13
Unity3.7 miles13
Olive6.4 miles13
Joppa6.4 miles13
Fairdealing7.0 miles13
Hardin8.1 miles13
Monkey Den (historical)9.2 miles13
Liberty (historical)9.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 486143. 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.