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College Hill, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Waco-Bybee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40385. It stands on Flint Creek. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

College Hill within Madison County

On record in College Hill

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of College Hill between 1997 and 2014, burning about 59 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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
24 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySNOWDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 College Hill: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Portwood ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College Hill in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCollege Hill-Multiple trees were downed by strong winds along College Hill Road near the community of Waco.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindCollege Hill-There was damage to a barn roof on College Hill Road.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindCollege Hill-A tree was reported down on Griggs Lane.
June 2009Flash FloodCollege Hill-Water was two feet over a bridge on Oakley Wells Road, shutting the road down.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Waco3.2 miles15
Elliston3.6 miles15
Bybee3.7 miles15
Union City4.0 miles16
Moberly4.4 miles15
Doylesville4.4 miles16
Reeds Crossing6.2 miles15
Brassfield7.9 miles15

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 College HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690245The 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 507730. 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.