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Barren River, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hadley-Browning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Hadley quadrangle.

Barren River within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Barren River between 1998 and 2012, burning about 221 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 July 2000Debris and open burning14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 July 2012Smokingunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMORGANTOWN
6 April 2000Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Barren River: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gary Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barren River in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBarren River$20,000Local law enforcement reported a barn fully engulfed in flames due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBarren River$5,000The Warren County emergency dispatch reported several trees and power lines down along Barren River Road just north of Bowling Green. The storm that brought this damage was the same supercell that produced a wall cloud and damage upstream in Butler County.
January 2009FloodBarren River$5,000Melting ice from a recent ice storm and heavy rain created minor flooding along the Barren River near Bowling Green. The river crested at 30.44 feet, which is 2.44 feet above flood stage, at 0900 CST on January 29th.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBarren River-A large tree was down across the 5500 block of Glen Lily Road.
June 2014Funnel CloudBarren River-A spotter reported a wall cloud and a descending funnel associated with a supercell that later brought wind damage to the northern side of Bowling Green.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Greencastle3.1 miles15
Rays Branch (historical)3.2 miles15
Rockland4.5 miles13
Richardsville4.5 miles15
Delafield4.6 miles15
Benleo4.7 miles13
Hadley4.8 miles13
Blue Level5.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517525. 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.