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Calvary, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lebanon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40033. It stands on Pontchartrain Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon West quadrangle.

Calvary within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Calvary between 1999 and 2020, burning about 339 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAGAN BRANCH
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUNN FIRE
24 March 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Calvary: 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
Ward & Montgomery QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvary in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCalvary$50,000The Marion County emergency manager reported multiple barns destroyed along with sheet metal lodged in the trees.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCalvary-A couple trees were blown down along Old Calvary Pike, including one which fell onto a house.
May 2022HailCalvary-Ping pong ball-sized hail was reported along East Calvary Road.
November 2011FloodCalvary-Lover's Lane just south of Lebanon was closed due to high water.
September 2009Flash FloodCalvary-Indian Lick Creek was overflowing its banks, causing Lovers Lane to be closed.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCalvary-no account filed
May 1998Flash FloodCalvary-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Greenbriar2.2 miles9
Peck Ford2.4 miles9
Belltown2.6 miles6
New Market2.7 miles6
Arbuckle (historical)3.6 miles9
Aurbuckle (historical)3.6 miles9
Lebanon3.8 miles6
Phillipsburg4.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507640. 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.