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Cupio, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shepherdsville Northwest census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40177. It stands on Stowers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kosmosdale quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Cupio within Bullitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Cupio between 1997 and 2014, burning about 557 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOINTE BLVD FIRE
5 April 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOP HILL
3 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWINDING CREEK FIRE
3 April 2013Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEAVERS RUN FIRE
27 April 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cupio: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Kosmos Cement DivisionStoneProducer
Kosmosdale PitStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Bullitt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cupio in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
March 2025Tornado (EF1)Cupio1 hurtThe National Weather Service surveyed a long-track EF-1 tornado that moved from Midway through the north side of Fort Knox and then ended just west of the Clermont exit on I-65. Numerous trees were downed or snapped along the damage path, which ran a little over 30 miles and was on the ground a little over 30 minutes. ||The most notable damage in Bullitt County was a large barn destroyed west of Clermont.
March 2025Tornado (EFU)Cupio-The National Weather Service surveyed a long-track EF-1 tornado that moved from Midway through the north side of Fort Knox and then ended just west of the Clermont exit on I-65. Numerous trees were downed or snapped along the damage path, which ran a little over 30 miles and was on the ground a little over 30 minutes.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCupio-A tree was blown down across Cupio Lane.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCupio-Local law enforcement reported a tree down off Highway 44 West in the western part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Bullitt 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
Mount Olivet (historical)1.0 miles20
Stites1.6 miles20
Sharps (historical)2.3 miles20
Katharyn2.7 miles20
Barrallton4.8 miles20
Bullitt Lick (historical)6.1 miles20
Pitts Point6.8 miles13
Sunnyside (historical)6.8 miles20

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 CupioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5194548The 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 507798. 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.