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Coraville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hebbardsville-Robards census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42420. The Survey maps it on the Delaware quadrangle.

Coraville within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Coraville between 1998 and 2014, burning about 167 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
20 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLDMAN
28 March 1998Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony75 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROBERTS RD.
11 March 2014Recreation and ceremony47 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDING TRAIL
20 February 2011Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAYTONA FIRE
18 February 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMATT ALLEN FIRE
10 November 2011Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFENCEROW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coraville in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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
April 2013HailCoraville-Quarter size hail was reported on the Audubon Parkway eight miles east of Henderson.

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Niagara1.0 miles13
Euterpe1.8 miles13
Anthoston4.1 miles18
Robards5.6 miles15
Zion5.8 miles14
Hebbardsville6.0 miles14
Rankin6.7 miles18
Bluff City6.9 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122565865The 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 507757. 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.