Dawson Springs, Kentucky

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 6 records

• Beulah Lodgelisted 1989
• Darby House, Thelisted 1997
• Gabriel Jennings Houselisted 1988
• Richard Salmon Houselisted 1988
• Dawson Springs Historic Districtlisted 1988
• Dawson Springs Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1998

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.

• 1909 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:48000
• 1911 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1968 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Dawson Springs between 1998 and 2017, burning about 526 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Walnut Grove (historical)
• Sixseam (historical)
• Charleston
• Murphy Ford
• Beulah
• Fiddle Bow

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawson Springs in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 490696. 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.