Axtel, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Glen Dean-Vanzant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40143. The Survey maps it on the Kingswood quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1953 USGS Kingswood quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Kingswood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Kingswood quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Axtel between 1998 and 2017, burning about 132 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 1999 | Smoking | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 21 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BALLMAN MCCOY LANE |
| 2 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 July 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PATRIOT SH |
| 3 April 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE |
| 19 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RAFFO VILLA |
| 10 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 59 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Axtel in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hinton Hills | 1.6 miles | 12 | |
| Cave Spring | 2.8 miles | 13 | |
| Roff | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Glen Dean | 3.5 miles | 13 | |
| McDaniels | 3.7 miles | 12 | |
| Cannons Point | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| Dempster | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| McQuady | 5.0 miles | 13 |
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 Axtel | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4830680 | 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 507431. 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.







