Boyce, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alvaton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42122. The Survey maps it on the Drake quadrangle.

Boyce within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Boyce between 1999 and 2016, burning about 10 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

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
9 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	TOWER FIRE
17 March 2016	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COSBY FIRE
26 October 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boyce in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Boyce	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Drake	1.6 miles	14
White Chapel (historical)	2.1 miles	14
Alvaton	3.2 miles	13
Old Union (historical)	3.2 miles	14
Plano	3.9 miles	16
Matlock	4.6 miles	14
White Kitchen (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Old Trinity (historical)	5.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507565. 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.