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Big Bone, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Walton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41091. It stands on Gum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rising Sun quadrangle.

Big Bone within Boone County

On record in Big Bone

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 5 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Big Bone between 2010 and 2014, burning about 26 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
26 March 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMUD LICK
6 November 2011Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBACKWATERS
30 October 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIG BONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boone 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 Big Bone: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Patriot Aggregate PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Boone County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Bone in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
October 2016Thunderstorm WindBig Bone$15,000Several trees were knocked down, with some minor structural damage at a farm on Big Bone Church Road.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBig Bone$3,000Five trees were downed at Big Bone Lick State Park.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindBig Bone$2,000A few large limbs were knocked down.
July 2013Flash FloodBig Bone$1,000Creeks were overflowing due to heavy rain, multiple roads were reported to have high water over them, and a couple of roads were closed in the area.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBig Bone$1,000Large limbs were blown down in Big Bone Lick State Park.
September 2018FloodBig Bone-Several roads were closed due to high water across the southern half of Boone County.
October 2016HailBig Bone-no account filed
June 1995HailBig Bone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boone 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
Hamilton1.6 miles12
Beaverlick3.1 miles11
Hume3.4 miles9
Hueys Corners4.4 miles11
Union5.5 miles11
Waterloo6.1 miles12
Rabbit Hash6.2 miles12
Verona6.8 miles9

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 Big BoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4905172The 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 487080. 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.