BlockAustin, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tracy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42123. It stands on Broken Arrow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Austin quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.
On record in Austin
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
- Hicks, William Houselisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Scottsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Austin quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Austin quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Austin between 1998 and 2005, burning about 9 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 November 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Austin in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | $1,500,000 | The dock at the Barren River State Resort Park marina suffered severe structural damage. Several large sections of the dock, along with the boats moored within them, were blown out of position. Anchor cables holding the docks in place were snapped or large anchors were blown out of position. Two boats were sunk and several boat motors were lost in the storm. Most of the other boats at the marina sustained some type of minor damage. Elsewhere in the park, buildings were damaged and more than 500 trees were downed. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | $20,000 | The Barren County emergency manager reported several downed trees and a barn blown down. |
| March 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | $3,000 | Wind damage occurred at a school near Austin, and to a commercial building in Glascow. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | A tree was blown down along Austin Tracy Road. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | A tree was reported down at Bewleytown and Runaway Drive. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | A tree was reported down on the 4000 block of Austin Tracey Road. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | A tree was knocked down near the corner of Austin-Tracy Road and Boat Ramp Rd. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | Several trees were downed near Austin. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | Trees were downed along highway 31E. |
| March 2017 | Hail | Austin | - | no account filed |
| March 2011 | Hail | Austin | - | no account filed |
| February 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | no account filed |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Austin | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Hail | Austin | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Austin | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4822923 | The 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 486146. 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.