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Bethelridge, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Middleburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42516. It lies near Bethel Knob. The Survey maps it on the Mintonville quadrangle. It stands 1,138 feet above sea level.

Bethelridge within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

26 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Bethelridge between 1998 and 2015, burning about 367 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPALLET FIRE
2 April 2013Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMASSENGALE
2 April 2013Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELLIOT
2 April 2013Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFIRE TOWER
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Natural12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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 Bethelridge: 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
Bethelridge MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bethelridge in 2 storm reports in 2010: 2 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 2010Thunderstorm WindBethelridge-Power outages were reported in two locations near Bethelridge. Several trees were blown down near Yosemite.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBethelridge-Trees were blown down in Casey County in locations both east and west of Liberty.

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ware1.8 miles8
Argyle2.7 miles8
Ferndale (historical)2.8 miles8
Mount Olive3.2 miles8
Mintonville4.8 miles8
Calvary (historical)5.0 miles8
Knob Lick (historical)6.3 miles8
Walltown6.3 miles8

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 BethelridgeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4897960The 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 507499. 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.