BlockChapel Hill, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adolphus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. It stands on Wolf Branch. The Survey maps it on the Adolphus quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Adolphus (North Half) quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
- 1954 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Chapel Hill between 2002 and 2012, burning about 2 acres 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 ceremony | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SQUIRE LIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chapel Hill in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapel Hill | - | Local law enforcement reported trees down across Allen County due to severe thunderstorm winds. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chapel Hill | - | County officials reported large trees down at the intersection of Roy Whitlow and Highway 100. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hill | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Petroleum | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Alonzo | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Rodemer | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Pope | 3.9 miles | 13 | |
| White Plains (historical) | 4.2 miles | 12 | |
| West Fork | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Butlersville | 4.5 miles | 13 |
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 Chapel Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65074748 | The 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 507685. 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.