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Cartersville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Paint Lick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40461. It lies near High Knob. The Survey maps it on the Paint Lick quadrangle.

Cartersville within Garrard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

63 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Cartersville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 530 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
18 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDRIPPING SPRINGS
5 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cartersville in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 2018Flash FloodCartersville$10,000A car became stuck in flood waters near the intersection of Highway 954 and Copper Creek Road.
May 2025HailCartersville-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported observed near Cartersville.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCartersville-A tree was blown down along Cartersville Road near the Madison County line.
February 2019Flash FloodCartersville-A water rescue took place on Copper Creek Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCartersville-A spotter reported several trees down around 11 miles southeast of Lancaster along Cartersville Road.
March 2012HailCartersville-Widespread large hail up to the size of tennis balls damaged many roofs and vinyl sidings northwest of Cartersville.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCartersville-Trees were downed and snapped along Gabbard Rd. One was blown on to a mobile home.
August 1999HailCartersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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
Hamack (historical)3.3 miles14
Manse3.8 miles14
New Union (historical)4.2 miles14
Lowell5.0 miles14
Paint Lick5.4 miles14
Point Leavell6.0 miles14
Hackley7.4 miles15
Hyattsville7.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507661. 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.