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Bosco, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41640. It stands on Saltlick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Bosco within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

319 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Bosco between 1997 and 2020, burning about 12,896 acres in total. None started naturally. 65 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 burning162
Arson/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Recreation and ceremony34
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

11 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bosco in 11 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBosco$20,000Numerous trees were blown down across a fifty foot wide by one quarter mile long path.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindBosco$5,000Trees were blown down and across Highway 550 near Turner Branch.
December 2015FloodBosco$1,000High water affected Bosco Road.
April 2025HailBosco-A picture on social media showed a picture of measured quarter sized hail along Community Church Road in Hueysville, KY.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBosco-Trees were reported to have been blown down in the Hueysville community.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBosco-Floyd county dispatch reported a tree blown down at the intersection of KY-7 and KY-2029 (Salt Lick Road), west of Hueysville.
May 2022HailBosco-A member of the public reported hail slightly larger than a quarter (1.00 inch) near Salt Lick Creek.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBosco-Several trees were blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBosco-A tree was blown down.
May 2009Flash FloodBosco-Route 777 was closed at Stonecold Creek. Route 7 closed at Hueysville. Over 2 inches of rain had fallen since 8 pm EDT.
July 2005HailBosco-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Hueysville (historical)0.3 miles17
Welco Station0.9 miles17
Midas1.0 miles17
West Garrett1.0 miles17
Garrett1.4 miles17
Northern1.5 miles17
Porter Junction1.9 miles17
Lackey2.2 miles17

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 BoscoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4947159The 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 487709. 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.