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Chalybeate, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42171. The Survey maps it on the Rhoda quadrangle.

Chalybeate within Edmonson County

On record in Chalybeate

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 23 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Chalybeate between 1999 and 2014, burning about 71 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOAK GROVE CHURCH FIRE
17 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryNOAH BLEDS
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPIG ROAD
18 April 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkTAURUS
6 March 2002Recreation and ceremony21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson 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 Chalybeate: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Vincent Prospect PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chalybeate in 20 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 11 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2019Thunderstorm WindChalybeate$50,000A roof was blown off of a barn.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindChalybeate$50,000NWS survey crew observed intermittent straight-line wind damage in the town of Chalybeate. There was damage to fences, several trees snapped, and 2 older barns experienced significant damage. In a residential area, two large sections of trees fell on one roof, and an above ground swimming pool was blown away. Everything was facing down from west to east, indicative of straight line winds. The duration of the thunderstorm wind event was 2 minutes.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindChalybeate$10,000A greenhouse was blown down.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindChalybeate$10,000Numerous large trees and power lines were reported down in the Chalybeate and Rhoda areas and near the intersection of Highway 101 and Highway 743.
May 2025HailChalybeate-Quarter size hail was estimated in the Chalybeate area.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Chalybeate-This tornado formed approximately 1 mile north of Petros near Petros Browning Road and tracked northeast for approximately 26 miles before exiting Warren County and into southern Edmonson County. Civil Air Patrol assisted in surveying the tornado path in this rural part of Edmonson County. Scattered tree damage was observed from the western edge of the county to where the tornado dissipated, near Brownville Road.
March 2020Flash FloodChalybeate-Water was over Kentucky State Roads 743 and 655.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-Edmonson County officials reported many trees and power lines down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-Edmonson County officials reported numerous trees and power lines down in the area.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-The Edmonson emergency manager reported numerous large trees and power lines down in the area.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-The county Emergency Manager reported large trees down on Noah Bledsoe Road.
February 2012Flash FloodChalybeate-Local emergency management reported water blocking State Highway 743 near Chalybeate.
May 2010Flash FloodChalybeate-Flash flooding led to the closure of New Grove Rd. and Chalybeate School Rd. near 31W in southern Edmonson County.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-Trees were downed and a trailer was blown over.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-Trees were downed.
August 2022HailChalybeate-no account filed
June 2004HailChalybeate-no account filed
February 2002HailChalybeate-no account filed
May 2000HailChalybeate-no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindChalybeate-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Rhoda2.1 miles23
Pig3.5 miles23
Arthur3.7 miles23
Nick4.0 miles13
Cedar Spring4.4 miles24
Brownsville4.8 miles13
Elko5.9 miles23
Rocky Hill6.6 miles24

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 ChalybeateAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5069094The 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 489315. 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.