Bass, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clementsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42733. It stands on Bull Run Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mannsville quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Bass within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1952 USGS Mannsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Mannsville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Campbellsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Bass between 1999 and 2017, burning about 197 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
8 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2013	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAYES
2 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2000	Smoking	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bass in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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
July 2013	Hail	Bass	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Sulphur Run (historical)	3.0 miles	10
Atterson	3.5 miles	10
Clementsville	4.3 miles	10
Pine Grove (historical)	5.1 miles	8
Scotts Chapel (historical)	6.1 miles	10
White Oak Ridge (historical)	6.2 miles	10
Woodrum Ridge (historical)	7.3 miles	10
Creston	7.4 miles	10

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 Bass	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4867886	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 507460. 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.