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Connersville, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cynthiana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40370. It stands on Little Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Breckinridge quadrangle.

Connersville within Harrison County

On record in Connersville

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Connersville between 2000 and 2020, burning about 29 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 November 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOPPAGE PIKE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harrison 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 Connersville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cynthiana QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harrison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Connersville in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindConnersville$5,000The Harrison County emergency manager reported that severe thunderstorm winds destroyed an outbuilding with the debris blown into a nearby house. This damaged the house siding as well.
September 2018Flash FloodConnersville-Highway 1842 North had water over the roadway.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Connersville-An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado with winds of 85 mph touched down about 1.5 miles east of Connersville and remained on the ground for a half mile. Along the path, two dozen large trees were uprooted or snapped. Two large barns had pieces of tin roofing ripped off and thrown. A small garage was completely destroyed with only minor damage to its contents. Pieces of oak fencing were tossed around and two small outbuildings were damaged.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindConnersville-Multiple trees were blown down in Connersville.
April 2008Flash FloodConnersville-State highways were closed due to high water.
June 2002Flash FloodConnersville-Water covered Highway 32 near Connersville.

Every storm recorded in Harrison 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
White Oak (historical)2.2 miles7
Lees Lick3.1 miles9
Alberta3.5 miles7
Broadwell4.5 miles8
Breckinridge4.6 miles7
Rutland4.9 miles7
Belmont5.6 miles10
Renaker5.8 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 489976. 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.