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Boone, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40456. The Survey maps it on the Berea quadrangle.

Boone within Rockcastle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Boone between 1997 and 2019, burning about 838 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boone in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBoone$10,000Several trees were blown down east of Boone, one of which landed on a vacant trailer.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBoone-Rockcastle County dispatch reports downed trees along Buffalo Hollow Road (CR-1358), southwest of Berea.
April 2025Flash FloodBoone-Social media showed pictures of water flowing across parts of Fairview Loop Road, between Berea and Mt. Vernon.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBoone-A member of the public reported a tree blown down along Wilderness road near the intersection with Flat Gap Road.
April 2018HailBoone-A trained spotter observed nickel to quarter sized hail from Boone to east of Conway.
August 2014HailBoone-Quarter size hail was reported.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindBoone-Several large tree limbs blown down.
April 2015HailBoone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Conway2.9 miles13
Disputanta3.7 miles13
Roundstone5.5 miles13
Climax5.9 miles15
Wildie6.5 miles13
Wilmot Church (historical)8.0 miles12
Hummel8.5 miles13
Goochland8.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507551. 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.