BlockBoreing, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Camp Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40744. It stands on Calloway Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lily quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS London quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS London quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Lily quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Lily quadrangle1:24000
- 1970 USGS Lily quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
55 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Boreing between 1997 and 2019, burning about 716 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boreing in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boreing | - | A tree was reported down on Route 229 around 4 miles south of the intersection between KY-1189 and KY-229 and in the vicinity of Camp Ground School. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boreing | - | Laurel county dispatch reported multiple trees blown down along KY-229 at different points between London and the Laurel/Knox county line. |
| March 2021 | Flood | Boreing | - | Dispatch reported a road being impassable in the McHargue community. |
| December 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boreing | - | Trees down across KY Hwy 229. |
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.
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 Boreing | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19600569 | The 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 510856. 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.