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Barterville, Kentucky

5 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Headquarters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40311. The Survey maps it on the Piqua quadrangle.

Barterville within Nicholas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 5 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

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Barterville between 1999 and 2009, burning about 59 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
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 February 2009Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 November 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nicholas 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 Barterville: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. 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
Nicholas County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Nicholas County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barterville in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBarterville-Trees were reported down on Calcutta Road.
March 2008FloodBarterville-The Licking River at Blue Licks Spring crested at 25.2 feet around 815 PM EST on March 28. Flood stage at Blue Licks Spring is 25 feet. Minor flooding of bottom land occurs at this level.
May 2003Flash FloodBarterville-Numerous county roads were under water in the northwest part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Nicholas 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
Ellisville2.7 miles5
Headquarters2.8 miles6
Hickory Ridge (historical)3.2 miles6
Barefoot4.0 miles5
Morning Glory4.4 miles6
Hooktown4.7 miles6
Carlisle5.1 miles6
Myers6.4 miles7

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 BartervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197732The 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 486445. 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.