Chicken Bristle, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hustonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40484. It stands on McKinney Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hustonville quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Hustonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Chicken Bristle between 1998 and 2019, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CARPENTER HOLLOW |
| 29 June 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HOLE IN TH |
| 5 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | POWER LINE |
| 13 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SKY LINE CEMETERY |
| 10 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MORLAND |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicken Bristle in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2018 | Flash Flood | Chicken Bristle | $300,000 | The emergency manager reported that flood waters were at least 6 feet deep, and that oil was leaking into the Green River. There was road and building damage at State Road 78 west of Stanford, State Road 2141, and State Road 1194 west of Stanford. To the south of Junction City at Mount Salem Road a trailer park was flooded. Al Schuler Road was washed out. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Chicken Bristle | - | Wind caused roof siding to rip off of a home 2 miles from US Route 127 near Hustonville. |
| February 2019 | Flash Flood | Chicken Bristle | - | A water rescue took place on Frog Branch Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnersville | 1.7 miles | 8 | |
| McKinney | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hustonville | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Moreland | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| McCormack (historical) | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| Blue Lick | 3.3 miles | 8 | |
| Milledgeville | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Geneva | 3.4 miles | 8 |
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 Chicken Bristle | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5096228 | 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 507696. 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.



