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Bush, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Bush census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40741. It stands on Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hima quadrangle. It stands 1,220 feet above sea level.

Bush within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Bush between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,508 acres in total. None started naturally. 125 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
Arson/incendiarism125
Debris and open burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Recreation and ceremony16
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWN BRANCH
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 July 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTUTTLE
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2000Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bush in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2025HailBush-A social media video shows a lot of hail falling near the intersection of Hooppole Creek Road and Marydell Road in eastern Laurel County around 4:15pm. There are stones of various sizes visible in the video, including some that are at least quarter sized.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBush-County dispatch reported trees and large limbs blown down onto Marydell Road near the Bush community.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBush-Trees were blown in Bush.

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Lake0.8 miles13
Sasser1.8 miles13
Marydell2.3 miles13
Blackwater3.0 miles13
Lida3.5 miles13
Cane Creek3.8 miles13
Laurel River Neighborhood6.4 miles13
Tuttle6.5 miles13

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 BushAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5001353The 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 511092. 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.