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Brassfield, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Waco-Bybee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. The Survey maps it on the Moberly quadrangle.

Brassfield within Madison County

On record in Brassfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Brassfield Depot, 1964 Brassfield Road (State Route 499), Brassfield, Madison County, KY
Brassfield Depot, 1964 Brassfield Road (State Route 499), Brassfield, Madison County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

48 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Brassfield between 1997 and 2019, burning about 452 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1998Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUND MOUNTAIN ROAD 2
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUND MOUNTAIN ROAD
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODLOE CHAPEL RD FIRE
25 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 July 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAVEL LIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Brassfield: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hog Jowl Mountain RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brassfield in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2012: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrassfield$20,000High winds blew down a barn in eastern Madison County.
June 2009Flash FloodBrassfield-Three to six inches of flowing water was covering Meadowbrook Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Speedwell1.5 miles15
Panola1.9 miles15
Crooksville (historical)2.8 miles15
Bybee4.2 miles15
Dreyfus4.2 miles16
Elliston4.6 miles15
Waco4.7 miles15
Moberly5.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507575. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.