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Costelow, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42276. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle.

Costelow within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Costelow between 2000 and 2014, burning about 107 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined7
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryANDERSON STORE
24 March 2014Recreation and ceremony72 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCKSVILLE RD
14 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Costelow in 1 storm report in 2025: 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 2025HailCostelow-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Pauline (historical)1.5 miles11
Anderson2.5 miles11
Gasper3.1 miles8
Chandlers Chapel3.2 miles8
Gupton Grove (historical)3.8 miles11
Richelieu4.1 miles14
Homer4.3 miles8
Buffalo Fork5.0 miles8

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 Q122564418The 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 507764. 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.