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Buggytown, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Berea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40461. It stands on Jones Branch. The Survey maps it on the Richmond South quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Buggytown within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Buggytown between 1997 and 2009, burning about 78 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

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 Buggytown: 1 producer. All of them 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
Price Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buggytown in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2010Flash FloodBuggytown$40,000Law enforcement reported that there were two water rescues underway at KY 52 and Peggy Flatts Rd.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBuggytown-A tree was blown down on Richmond Road near the Madison and Garrard County line.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindBuggytown-A tree was blown down by strong thunderstorm winds along the 3100 block of Kentucky Route 52.
January 2018Thunderstorm WindBuggytown-County officials reported a few trees down.
June 2015Flash FloodBuggytown-A Kentucky state official reported that high water was flowing over Paint Lick road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBuggytown-An amateur radio operator reported that trees fell down in the Walnut Meadow area due to severe thunderstorm winds.

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
Happy Landing0.7 miles15
Silver Creek1.5 miles17
Duncanon2.0 miles17
Kirksville2.9 miles15
Peytontown3.1 miles17
Whites3.7 miles17
Farristown3.8 miles18
Round Hill3.9 miles15

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 BuggytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690186The 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 488340. 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.