BlockBadger, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saloma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42716. The Survey maps it on the Hibernia quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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 Hibernia quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hibernia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
15 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Badger between 1999 and 2014, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DESPAIN RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Badger in 1 storm report in 2010: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2010 | Hail | Badger | - | Hail covered the ground near Highway 210 on the Larue/Green County line. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hibernia | 1.5 miles | 9 | |
| Maple | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| Mac | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| White Rose | 4.4 miles | 9 | |
| Pitman | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Willowtown | 5.8 miles | 9 | |
| Durhamtown | 7.3 miles | 9 | |
| Bengal | 7.7 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507434. 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.