Boston, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42366. The Survey maps it on the Philpot quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 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.
- 1907 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Philpot quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Philpot quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
18 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Boston between 1997 and 2010, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROAD BANK FIRE |
| 16 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 20 BAIL |
| 9 April 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boston in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2018 | Flood | Boston | - | Kentucky Highway 762 was closed due to floodwaters near the Ohio County line. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Boston | - | A total of 24 county roads were closed due to high water. Kentucky Highway 762 was closed between mile markers zero and one. Kentucky 298 was closed between mile markers two and three. Several other state roads were closed. A large amount of cropland was flooded, about half of it planted. Much of the flooding in the county was due to the Green River, which crested at moderate flood levels in Mclean 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grandview | 1.3 miles | 13 | |
| Whitesville | 2.1 miles | 12 | |
| Oklahoma | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Laffoon | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Habit | 4.7 miles | 13 | |
| Philpot | 5.1 miles | 13 | |
| Saint Lawrence (historical) | 5.3 miles | 17 | |
| Knottsville | 5.6 miles | 16 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507559. 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.








