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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1941 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
26 since 1998Regional 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 ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BLUE FORK ROAD |
| 19 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 13 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 60 FIRE |
| 11 April 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2018Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bewleyville | - | A tree blew down on South State Road 333. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corners | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Basin Spring | 3.3 miles | 16 | |
| Rosetta | 3.4 miles | 16 | |
| Irvington | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| High Plains | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Stinnettsville | 5.3 miles | 16 | |
| Graysville | 5.5 miles | 16 | |
| Big Spring | 5.6 miles | 14 |
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 Q122565005 | The 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.









