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Davistown, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Bryantsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40444. The Survey maps it on the Bryantsville quadrangle.

Davistown within Garrard 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Davistown between 2001 and 2005, burning about 8 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/undetermined4
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
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 December 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garrard 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 Davistown: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc. 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
John Burdette DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Sandidge VeinsBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoritePast ProducerBarite, Fluorite

Every working recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davistown in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 lightning. 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 2019LightningDavistown$3,000Social media reported a lightning strike near Fisher Ford Road. The strike killed two cattle.

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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
Marcellus1.1 miles13
Bryantsville2.9 miles13
Marksbury3.3 miles13
White Oak4.2 miles13
Toddville4.2 miles13
Buena Vista4.3 miles12
Harmony (historical)4.4 miles12
Bourne4.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 490678. 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.