Bobtown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Eubank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42567. It lies near Bergin Knob. The Survey maps it on the Bobtown quadrangle.

Bobtown within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1935 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Bobtown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bobtown between 2000 and 2019, burning about 95 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
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
6 April 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2002	Recreation and ceremony	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 March 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WOODHAVEN DRIVE
26 February 2000	Smoking	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 November 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 October 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 October 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bobtown in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2022	Flood	Bobtown	-	Epperson Road is impassable due to flood waters near the community of Woodstock.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Etna	2.4 miles	9
Dabney	2.4 miles	9
Welborn	2.5 miles	13
Dry Hole (historical)	2.9 miles	13
Woodstock	3.2 miles	7
Coin	3.3 miles	9
Elrod	3.6 miles	13
Valley Oak	4.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507542. 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.