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Avenstoke, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northwest Anderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40076. The Survey maps it on the Glensboro quadrangle.

Avenstoke within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Avenstoke in 2001, burning about 6 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 April 2001Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avenstoke in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2023HailAvenstoke-Hail up to ping pong ball size was observed in northwestern Anderson County.
February 2018FloodAvenstoke-The public reported water over the roadway on Benson Creek Road.
July 2015Flash FloodAvenstoke-An Anderson County law enforcement official reported that Avenstoke Road that runs along Pigeon Fork had 5 to 6 feet of water flowing over it, making it impassable.
June 2007HailAvenstoke-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Alton3.7 miles14
Alton Station3.7 miles14
Birdie4.9 miles9
Gee5.5 miles9
Ninevah6.7 miles14
Anderson City7.1 miles9
Lawrenceburg7.4 miles14
Glensboro7.8 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122568629The 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 486157. 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.