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Constantine, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40140. The Survey maps it on the Constantine quadrangle.

Constantine within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Constantine between 1998 and 2019, burning about 335 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
5 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony65 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH GRANDVIEW CHURCH ROAD
11 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Constantine in 1 storm report in 2016: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2016Thunderstorm WindConstantine$5,000Trained spotters reported trees and a part of a barn blown into the road on Ova Wright Lane.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Dyer2.3 miles18
Fairfield2.7 miles11
Hudson2.7 miles11
Custer4.5 miles11
Buras4.6 miles11
Centerview4.9 miles11
Mook6.1 miles11
Woodrow6.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 489989. 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.