BlockConner, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Simpsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40067. It stands on Big Long Run. The Survey maps it on the Fisherville quadrangle.
On record in Conner
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Whitney M. Young Jr. BirthplaceNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.8 miles away
Lincoln Institute Complexlisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
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.
- 1929 USGS Taylorsville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Fisherville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Conner in 2005, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conner in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Conner | - | There was one white pine uprooted and four white pines with snapped trunks on Lincoln Run Road. |
| March 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Conner | - | This tornado formed approximately 1.4 miles north of Avoca near the Gene Snyder Freeway and tracked east-northeast for approximately 2.7 miles before exiting Jefferson County and into northwest Shelby County. ||In Shelby County, the twister did sporadic wind damage along Crabapple Lane. Trees were snapped and twisted and some uprooted. Wind speeds were between 80 and 85 mph and the width decreased to less than 100 yards. The tornado crossed Kentucky Route 362 (Ash Ave) along the southern portion of Persimmon Ridge Golf Club. The main damage was shingle loss to homes, and sporadic tree damage.||The last damage point was along Persimmon Ridge Road, paralleling Aiken 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Ridge | 0.9 miles | 12 | |
| Simpsonville | 1.9 miles | 11 | |
| L S Park | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Veechdale | 2.3 miles | 11 | |
| Montclair | 3.3 miles | 11 | |
| Flat Rock (historical) | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Todds Point | 4.8 miles | 10 | |
| Joyes | 5.3 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507746. 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.