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Butchertown, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Dividing Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40464. It stands on Frances Branch. The Survey maps it on the Parksville quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Butchertown within Casey County

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

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Butchertown between 1998 and 2019, burning about 303 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREYNOLDS HOLLOW
12 September 1998Smoking15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2014Debris and open burning52 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMINORS BRANCH
14 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOWER LINE
10 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMORLAND
6 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butchertown in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 1 flash flood, 1 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
June 2013Flash FloodButchertown$10,000The Casey County emergency manager reported that a road 4 miles northeast of Ellisburg was flooded and partially washed away.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindButchertown-There were trees down on Elk Cave Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Ruletown (historical)3.3 miles8
Ellisburg3.4 miles8
Neelys Gap (historical)4.4 miles8
Carpenter Creek (historical)5.1 miles8
Peytons Store5.4 miles8
Frey Creek (historical)5.9 miles8
Dogwood (historical)6.3 miles8
Chilton6.4 miles8

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 ButchertownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690189The 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 507630. 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.