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Chestnut Grove, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shelbyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40065. The Survey maps it on the Ballardsville quadrangle. It stands 804 feet above sea level.

Chestnut Grove within Shelby County

On record in Chestnut Grove

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 7 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chestnut Grove in 2013, burning under an 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
18 February 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMOODY FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chestnut Grove in 18 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 flood, 1 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
January 2012Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove$2,000A member of the public reported damage to a barn. Trees were twisted and part of a silo was missing at a farm along Highway 53 in north Shelby County.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-There was tree damage off of Hinkle Lane.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-A shed collapsed and was thrown about a quarter of a mile near the 8200 block of Dover Road.
April 2025Flash FloodChestnut Grove-Water was flowing over Lucas Road near Drane Lane.
May 2022HailChestnut Grove-Ping pong ball-sized hail was observed in the Chestnut Grove community in northern Shelby County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-Trees were down on Fox Run Road.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-There was suspected microburst damage along Dover Road. One outdoor pavilion was demolished. Multiple large branches were down, and a tree was uprooted. There was also a large building with a 14 foot Overhead Door that was damaged.
February 2021FloodChestnut Grove-The 1100 block of Anderson Lane was impassable due to high water, and there was a water rescue in the area.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-Trees were reported down on La Grange Road just north of Fox Run Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-Trees were reported down.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-The Shelby County Department of Highways reported several trees down just north of Shelbyville.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-Several trees were downed across a road.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-Numerous trees were downed.
February 2002HailChestnut Grove-Hail was three inches deep on the roadway.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-no account filed
June 2007HailChestnut Grove-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindChestnut Grove-no account filed
February 2002HailChestnut Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Raymond Hill0.6 miles10
Todds Point4.5 miles10
Middletown Heights5.9 miles14
Joyes6.4 miles11
Shelbyville6.4 miles14
Montclair6.5 miles11
Veachland7.1 miles14
Simpsonville7.2 miles11

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 Chestnut GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690215The 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 507695. 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.