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Buechel, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40218. The Survey maps it on the Louisville East quadrangle.

Buechel within Jefferson County

On record in Buechel

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 8 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Buechel in 2001, burning about 1 acre 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
Debris and open burning1

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
3 October 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Buechel: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Louisville Crushed Stone MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buechel in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindWest Buechel$100,000A tree fell on a home in Newburg.
January 2012Tornado (EF1)Buechel$50,000An EF-1 tornado touched down just to the north of the intersection of Hurstbourne Parkway and Stony Brook Drive. It traveled northeast along Stony Brook Drive and lifted near the intersection of Stony Brook and Laverne Drive. Numerous trees were snapped along it path. Siding and shingles were blown off of multiple houses. On Michael Edward Drive, a garage door was blown in on a detached garage. The roof of this house was lifted and shifted a foot.
April 2006HailBuechel$2,000Quarter size hail broke windows along Bardstown Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWest Buechel-Metrosafe reported tree damage and power outages in the Buechel area.
February 2018Flash FloodWest Buechel-Fire department performed water rescues of residents stranded by flash flooding.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBuechel-There was a large tree across Eldorado Avenue in Buechel.
October 2013Flash FloodWest Buechel-Several roads were flooded around Medford Lane and Livermore Place.
April 2011HailWest Buechel-The hail fell between 11:07 and 11:22 am.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBuechel-A telephone pole was downed on Hikes Lane.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
West Buechel0.6 miles17
Petersburg1.2 miles17
Bon Air Estates1.3 miles17
Highgate Springs1.5 miles17
Watterson Park1.7 miles17
Wellington1.7 miles17
Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance)2.0 miles17
Strathmoor Gardens2.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 488292. 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.