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Cabot, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Patesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42343. The Survey maps it on the Fordsville quadrangle.

Cabot within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cabot between 1997 and 2016, burning about 326 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
25 April 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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 Cabot: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Newton Springs Church ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

2 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cabot in 2 storm reports between 2024 and 2025: 2 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindCabot-A tree fell down over the 800 block of Paul Baker Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCabot-A tree was downed by strong winds on Easton Cabot Road.

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Easton1.9 miles11
Victoria Crossroads4.3 miles11
Sanders4.8 miles11
Roseville5.7 miles12
Patesville7.3 miles14
Arrington Corner7.8 miles14
Scuffletown (historical)8.3 miles14
Weberstown8.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507634. 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.