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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.

Boston within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 1997

Regional 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 ceremony7
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4

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
27 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROAD BANK FIRE
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry20 BAIL
9 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2018FloodBoston-Kentucky Highway 762 was closed due to floodwaters near the Ohio County line.
May 2010FloodBoston-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.

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Grandview1.3 miles13
Whitesville2.1 miles12
Oklahoma2.6 miles13
Laffoon4.0 miles13
Habit4.7 miles13
Philpot5.1 miles13
Saint Lawrence (historical)5.3 miles17
Knottsville5.6 miles16

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.