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Barrallton, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Shepherdsville Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40109. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Valley Station quadrangle. It stands 531 feet above sea level.

Barrallton within Bullitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

53 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Barrallton between 1997 and 2016, burning about 250 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning13
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOHNSON HO
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.9 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHIP FIRE
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt 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 Barrallton: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bloating Material. 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
ShepherdsvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Bullitt County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barrallton in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2015Flash FloodBarrallton$1,000,000Emergency management reported that the Martin Hill Rd Bridge on KY 1417 was washed out due to excessive rainfall. Also, KY 1116 over Cedar creek closed due to high water. Between 4 and 6 inches fell across the county, the highest amounts across the northern portions.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBarrallton-A tree was blown down across Barrallton Hill Road.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBarrallton-A tree was down on the 900 block of Bear Camp Road.

Every storm recorded in Bullitt 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
Sunnyside (historical)2.1 miles20
Sharps (historical)2.9 miles20
Bullitt Lick (historical)3.0 miles20
Mount Olivet (historical)3.8 miles20
Cupio4.8 miles20
Brooks5.0 miles17
Gap in Knob5.3 miles17
Oak Grove5.6 miles12

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 BarralltonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4863213The 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 486424. 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.