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Brownsboro, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pewee Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40014. The Survey maps it on the Crestwood quadrangle.

Brownsboro within Oldham County

On record in Brownsboro

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

On the National Register 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Brownsboro in 2000, burning about 25 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oldham County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brownsboro: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crestwood Mine UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crestwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Oldham County StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Oldham County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsboro in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 5 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 2018Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro$15,000Trees and power lines were reported down at 7511 Highway 329 in Crestwood.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-Power lines were down near Interstate 71.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-Dispatch reported a tree and wires down in the roadway.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-Trees were downed along Interstate 71.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBrownsboro-Several large trees were blown down in the Glen Oaks area of northeast Jefferson county.

Every storm recorded in Oldham 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
Park Lake1.5 miles12
Glenarm1.9 miles12
Demplytown2.3 miles12
Rollington2.5 miles12
Orchard Grass Hills2.6 miles16
Crestwood2.6 miles12
Fraziertown2.9 miles16
Lake Louisvilla3.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 488041. 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.