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Bagdad, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Christianburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40003. The Survey maps it on the North Pleasureville quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Bagdad within Shelby County

On record in Bagdad

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 8 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Bagdad between 1999 and 2014, burning about 54 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOW PIE
27 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bagdad in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Thunderstorm WindBagdad-A tree was reported down on Christiansburg Road on the east side of the county.
April 2015HailBagdad-A social media picture from Bagdad showed quarter sized hail.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBagdad-Downed trees took down power lines on Bagdad Road.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBagdad-A few trees were downed.
July 2004HailBagdad-no account filed
May 2003HailBagdad-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBagdad-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Consolation0.9 miles10
Old Christianburg2.0 miles10
Christianburg2.5 miles10
Jacksonville2.5 miles10
North Benson Hills (historical)2.6 miles10
Hatton3.7 miles13
Mulberry4.1 miles10
Elmburg4.1 miles10

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 BagdadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3248608The 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 486204. 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.