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Carntown, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41043. It stands on Jimmie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moscow quadrangle.

Carntown within Pendleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Carntown in 2007, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pendleton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Carntown: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Black River Mining LimekilnStone, Crushed/Broken, CalciumPlant
Brewer Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Franklin Stone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pendleton County UndergroundStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Point Pleasant QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pendleton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carntown in 1 storm report in 2000: 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
July 2000HailCarntown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pendleton 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
Ivor1.5 miles13
Peach Grove2.7 miles10
Mount Auburn3.8 miles10
Caddo6.3 miles6
Flower Town (historical)6.4 miles10
Meridian7.3 miles10
Butler7.7 miles10
Boston7.9 miles10

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 CarntownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25021850The 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 507656. 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.