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Beech Grove, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grayson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41143. It stands on Canoe Run. The Survey maps it on the Grayson quadrangle. It stands 620 feet above sea level.

Beech Grove within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

182 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Beech Grove between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,900 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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 burning68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Recreation and ceremony32
Arson/incendiarism32
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAA HAYFIELD
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter 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 Beech Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Hitchens WorksClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beech Grove in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeech Grove$2,000Trees were knocked down along Route 1 just south of Grayson.
February 2011FloodBeech Grove$1,000Canoe Run overflowed onto Damron Drive and portions of State Route 1.
June 2025Flash FloodBeech Grove-High water was observed on Damron Branch Road between Beech Grove and Grayson.
May 2024Flash FloodBeech Grove-South State Highway 1 was impassable due to high water at Damron Branch.

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Fairview Hill1.6 miles15
Hitchins1.9 miles15
Grayson2.1 miles15
Stinson2.6 miles15
Leon3.0 miles15
The Cross Roads (historical)3.0 miles15
Mount Savage3.5 miles15
Straight Creek3.8 miles15

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 Beech GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622269The 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 486711. 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.