Barnsley, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42431. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville East quadrangle.

Barnsley within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1909 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Madisonville East quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Madisonville East quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Barnsley between 1997 and 2017, burning about 395 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	B & K SAWMILL
6 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LABOR
20 August 2007	Debris and open burning	74 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
31 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	114 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BIRDS NEST
23 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2012	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ROCK SPARK
27 June 2012	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WHITECITY
24 May 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	EARLINGTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnsley in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2004	Tornado (F2)	Barnsley	$300,000	This tornado touched down about 5 miles south of Madisonville and moved almost due east, crossing the Pennyrile Parkway at exit 37. The tornado ended just after crossing into Muhlenberg County in a forested area. Several homes were damaged, including one that was severely damaged. Several barns and outbuildings were destroyed. Several roofs were blown off businesses. A truck stop near the Pennyrile Parkway received minor damage. The tornado moved across the sports complex at Hopkins County Central High School, causing heavy damage to the baseball area. Some trees landed on roads and cars. Peak winds were estimated near 140 MPH by the damage survey team. The tornado was videotaped at fairly close range as it passed near Hopkins Central High School.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Barnsley	$10,000	Following the lifting of the EF-3 tornado near Barnsley, a swath of straight-line downburst winds damaged many trees from Ed Brackett Rd eastward along Pontiac Ln to Free Henry Ford Rd just east of I-69.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Barnsley	$5,000	A shed was blown over near the county high school.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Flat Creek (historical)	1.0 miles	12
Mortons Gap	1.6 miles	12
Earlington	1.7 miles	14
West Side Heights	2.3 miles	14
Wesco	2.7 miles	14
Hecla	2.8 miles	14
Dozier Heights	2.9 miles	14
Grapevine	3.0 miles	12

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 Barnsley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197730	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 486420. 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.