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Blue Level, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bowling Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Rockfield quadrangle. It stands 755 feet above sea level.

Blue Level within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Blue Level between 2000 and 2012, burning about 136 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
24 July 2000Debris and open burning14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 July 2012Smokingunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMORGANTOWN
6 April 2000Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Blue Level: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gary Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

11 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Level in 11 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
April 2008Thunderstorm WindBlue Level3 hurt, $50,000One mobile home shifted 15 to 20 feet off foundation. Other mobile homes flipped over or were destroyed in the Petros and Browning community where three injuries occurred. Many trees were also downed.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindBlue Level$20,000Thunderstorm winds damaged a trailer on Morgantown Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBlue Level-There were trees and power lines down.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindBlue Level-Trees were blown down along Windsor Circle, which also brought down power lines.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindBlue Level-Trees were reported down on Briggs Hill Road and Old Scottsville Road.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBlue Level-Trees were down on Clarence O Dell Road off of Kentucky 2632.
October 2014HailBlue Level-A spotter reported quarter sized hail on the west side of Bowling Green.
January 2013FloodBlue Level-The Public reported that water completely covered Morgantown Road just east of Briggs Hill Road.
May 2010Flash FloodBlue Level-Water was flowing over the road at Thames Valley Rd. and Veterans Memorial and at Robin Ave. and Jennings Dr.
April 2017HailBlue Level-no account filed
April 2008HailBlue Level-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Springhill3.3 miles16
Memphis Junction3.7 miles16
Crestmoor3.9 miles16
Lost River3.9 miles16
Browning4.2 miles10
Shawnee Estates4.8 miles16
Rockfield4.8 miles10
Barren River5.1 miles13

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 Blue LevelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690125The 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 487525. 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.