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Bewleyville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40146. It lies near Pilot Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Big Spring quadrangle.

Bewleyville within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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 Bewleyville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 114 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
28 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLUE FORK ROAD
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 60 FIRE
11 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bewleyville in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBewleyville-A tree blew down on South State Road 333.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Corners3.2 miles14
Basin Spring3.3 miles16
Rosetta3.4 miles16
Irvington3.5 miles15
High Plains4.9 miles14
Stinnettsville5.3 miles16
Graysville5.5 miles16
Big Spring5.6 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122565005The 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 487067. 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.