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.
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.
Beulah Lodgelisted 1989 · 0.3 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:48000
- 1909 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Coiltown quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Earlington quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
26 since 1999Regional 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 ceremony | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LONE TREE FIRE |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BULAH 109 |
| 9 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 July 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LIGHTNING |
| 13 July 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 43 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BURNT BUZZ |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2006Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beulah | $3,000 | A secondary road off of Highway 70 was blocked by downed trees and flooding. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beulah | $1,000 | A tree was down near Highway 70 and Sixth Vein Road. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Beulah | - | A second funnel cloud associated with a second storm was observed near Beulah. |
| June 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Beulah | - | no account filed |
| July 2012 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
| March 2007 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Beulah | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiddle Bow | 1.4 miles | 13 | |
| Rabbit Ridge | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Sixth Vein | 1.5 miles | 13 | |
| Charleston | 3.3 miles | 13 | |
| Kirkwood Springs | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Dalton | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Richland | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Colitown Junction | 5.2 miles | 13 |
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.







