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Boneyville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Stanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40484. The Survey maps it on the Stanford quadrangle.

Boneyville within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Boneyville between 1998 and 2019, burning about 162 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLANDFILL
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAZZLETT HOLLOW
13 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARPENTER HOLLOW
29 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHOLE IN TH
8 April 2013Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH FORK
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySKY LINE CEMETERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boneyville: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Eastside Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Westside Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boneyville in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Thunderstorm WindBoneyville-A tree was reported down on State Road 1194 near Stanford.
June 2016Flash FloodBoneyville-The Lincoln County emergency manager reported high water over Highway 698 near the water plant.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Blue Lick1.3 miles8
Stanford2.4 miles13
Harmon Heights2.5 miles13
West Lynn (historical)2.5 miles13
Miracle2.7 miles8
Turnersville2.7 miles8
McCormack (historical)3.1 miles13
Jumbo3.3 miles8

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 Q122572575The 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 487667. 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.