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Cub Run, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Munfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42729. The Survey maps it on the Cub Run quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Cub Run within Hart County

On record in Cub Run

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 1 record

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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Cub Run between 1998 and 2018, burning about 68 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINEHURST BAY
6 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresMammoth Cave National ParkCENTER POINT
12 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cub Run in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2010Thunderstorm WindCub Run-Trees were blown down.
April 2003HailCub Run-Hail covered the ground.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindCub Run-Trees down across Highway 728 at Cub Run.
August 1998Thunderstorm WindCub Run-Spotters reported trees down.
September 2006HailCub Run-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCub Run-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Roseburg2.0 miles13
Big Windy2.0 miles13
Winesap2.7 miles13
Macon2.8 miles13
Bee2.8 miles13
Dogcreek3.6 miles15
Lines Mill3.7 miles13
Forestville4.3 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on Cub RunAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690276The 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 490445. 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.