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Bobtown, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Berea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40403. It lies near Joe Lick Knob. The Survey maps it on the Bighill quadrangle.

Bobtown within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Bobtown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 292 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAVEL LIC
8 June 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 June 2008Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 1999Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bobtown in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 4 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBobtown-A large section of metal roofing was blown off a barn.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBobtown-There were two barns that had extensive damage along US 421.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBobtown-There were trees blown down at Dreyfus and Ogg Lane.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBobtown-There were trees down on Blue Lick Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Kingston2.4 miles15
Dreyfus2.8 miles16
Crooksville (historical)3.4 miles15
Farristown3.8 miles18
Whites3.8 miles17
Duluth4.2 miles16
Middletown4.2 miles18
Blythewood Estates (historical)4.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 510829. 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.