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Broughtentown, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Crab Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. It lies near Harness Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Crab Orchard quadrangle.

Broughtentown within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

50 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Broughtentown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2001Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broughtentown in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBroughtentown-A tree was blown down on Broughtontown Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBroughtentown-A tree was blown down at the intersection of Kentucky Route 643 and Kentucky Route 1781.
February 2021Flash FloodBroughtentown-Two horses were rescued from a vehicle stuck in high water on Kentucky 1781 near Crab Orchard.
July 2016Flash FloodBroughtentown-Local law enforcement reported water swiftly running over Highway 1781.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Ephesus (historical)1.9 miles7
Snyders (historical)1.9 miles7
Peoples Corner (historical)2.1 miles7
Sopers (historical)2.1 miles7
Dog Walk2.2 miles7
Chapel Gap (historical)2.5 miles7
Thompson Store (historical)2.8 miles12
Chestnut Ridge (historical)3.0 miles7

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 BroughtentownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122569670The 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 487976. 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.