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Buckeye, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40444. It stands on Montgomery Branch. The Survey maps it on the Buckeye quadrangle. It stands 955 feet above sea level.

Buckeye within Garrard County

On record in Buckeye

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Buckeye between 1999 and 2016, burning about 48 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 August 1999Natural30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDRY BRANCH
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 October 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBACK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buckeye in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 1999Thunderstorm WindBuckeye3 hurt, $80,000A tied down house trailer was rolled about 100 feet into the middle of a road and was destroyed. The adult female and 2 children that were in the home at the time were treated for minor injuries. Also, damage occurred to several homes and barns. Trees were downed. The wind was strong enough to push large rolled bales of hay down a hill.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-There were trees down on Oscar Ray and Tommy Murphy Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-Local law enforcement reported trees down in the area.
April 2015HailBuckeye-Hail stones as large as baseballs were reported by the Garrard County Emergency Manager.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-A tree fell on a house in Buckeye, near the Madison County line.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-no account filed
May 2003Thunderstorm WindBuckeye-no account filed
June 1997HailBuckeye-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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
Teatersville1.8 miles10
Stone2.3 miles10
McCreary3.1 miles10
Judson3.9 miles10
Three Forks4.1 miles10
Nina4.1 miles15
Guy (historical)4.3 miles10
Mount Hebron (historical)5.5 miles10

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 BuckeyeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4983050The 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 507605. 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.