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Dogtown, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Benton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42025. It stands on South Fork Watch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hardin quadrangle.

Dogtown within Marshall 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

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Dogtown between 1999 and 2016, burning about 274 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
23 September 2015Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE BEAR CREEK FIRE
28 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLIVE HAMLETT RD.
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCKET
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 November 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dogtown: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
West-Of-Highway ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dogtown in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindDogtown$30,000Metal roofing from a mobile home along U.S. Highway 68 was peeled off and deposited on the highway. Underpinning was stripped off. The mobile home was shifted slightly on its foundation blocks, even though it was strapped down. Porch columns and railings were pushed out on a home across the highway. Cedar trees were blown over. An equipment shed and a storage building were shoved a couple of inches. A carport near the mobile home was tossed across Highway 68.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDogtown$8,000A slow moving thunderstorm strengthened over Benton, eventually moving off to the east-northeast, producing wind damage in the city. Broadcast media relayed a report of a maple tree down southeast of Benton. A spotter measured a wind gust of 58 mph on the southwest side. Emergency management reported that a few large trees were down around Benton. Dime size hail also occurred with this storm.
April 2022FloodDogtown-Kentucky Highway 1462 was closed at the Clarks River bridge due to flooding of the Clarks River.
December 2021FloodDogtown-A couple of lesser travelled roads were closed in flood-prone areas. Kentucky 1949 was closed at the tunnel under Interstate 69. Kentucky 1462 was closed at the Clarks River flood plain.
August 2020Flash FloodDogtown-Highway 408 east of Benton was closed due to water over the roadway at the Tubbs Branch Creek. A rainfall amount of 2.85 inches was received from Benton at about the same time as the flash flood report.
May 2010FloodDogtown-Flooding of the Clarks River closed Highway 1462 near Benton, Highway 1042 near Sharpe, and a very lightly travelled county road. Water was on other roads in the county, but they were passable.
April 2023HailDogtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Walnut Grove0.7 miles13
Glade1.4 miles13
Hamlet (historical)1.7 miles13
Benton2.0 miles13
Monkey Den (historical)2.2 miles13
South Marshall2.8 miles13
Liberty (historical)3.2 miles13
Yancy Darnell (historical)3.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 490987. 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.