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Beulah, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dawson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42408. The Survey maps it on the Coiltown quadrangle.

Beulah within Hopkins County

On record in Beulah

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

26 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Beulah between 1999 and 2014, burning about 372 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural1

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
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONE TREE FIRE
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULAH 109
9 August 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLIGHTNING
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBURNT BUZZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud. 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
December 2013Thunderstorm WindBeulah$3,000A secondary road off of Highway 70 was blocked by downed trees and flooding.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBeulah$1,000A tree was down near Highway 70 and Sixth Vein Road.
June 2014Funnel CloudBeulah-A second funnel cloud associated with a second storm was observed near Beulah.
June 2014Funnel CloudBeulah-no account filed
July 2012HailBeulah-no account filed
March 2007HailBeulah-no account filed
April 2007HailBeulah-no account filed
April 2006HailBeulah-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Fiddle Bow1.4 miles13
Rabbit Ridge1.5 miles13
Sixth Vein1.5 miles13
Charleston3.3 miles13
Kirkwood Springs4.5 miles13
Dalton4.6 miles13
Richland4.8 miles14
Colitown Junction5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 487050. 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.