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Baldwin, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cottonburg-Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. It lies near Whitlock Hill. The Survey maps it on the Valley View quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Baldwin within Madison County

On record in Baldwin

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Baldwin between 1999 and 2017, burning about 138 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
24 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2008Debris and open burning44 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWATER LN
5 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Baldwin: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ambrose Fault VeinFluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, ZincPast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldwin in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2017Thunderstorm WindBaldwin$40,000Broadcast media reported numerous trees and farm outbuildings damaged by severe thunderstorm winds in the Baldwin community.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBaldwin-The Madison County emergency manager reported that a tree fell down on a power line on Whitlock Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Stringtown1.7 miles15
Million2.3 miles15
Newby2.4 miles15
Cuzick3.0 miles15
Valley View3.4 miles15
Edenton3.8 miles15
Crow Valley3.9 miles15
Ruthton4.4 miles15

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 BaldwinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690054The 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 486282. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.