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Bells Run, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Heflin-Beda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42347. It stands on Bell Run. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Ridge quadrangle.

Bells Run within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Bells Run between 2000 and 2020, burning about 320 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Smoking1
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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestry764 FIRE
27 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBELLS FIRE
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2017Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOLING ROAD
8 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2020Smoking5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySMOKING FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bells Run in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 FloodBells Run-Emergency manager reported numerous roads closed to high water and excessive rainfall. KY 762 was closed between MP 2 and 3, KY 273 between MP 3 and 4, KY 764 between MP 8 and 9, and KY 919 between MP 3 and 4. Between 2 and 3 inches of rain fell across the county, the highest amounts across the north and east portions.

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Pleasant Ridge3.1 miles13
Taffy3.4 miles13
Buford3.6 miles13
Adaburg4.3 miles13
Ralph5.1 miles13
Beda6.1 miles13
Combs Ford6.4 miles13
Magan6.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507488. 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.