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Dunnville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dunnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42528. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dunnville quadrangle. It stands 745 feet above sea level.

Dunnville within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Dunnville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 686 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism10
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
30 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2001Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunnville in 16 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flood. 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
April 1998Thunderstorm WindDunnville$5,000,000DES reported an 8 mile path of destruction resulted from severe thunderstorm winds. 16 structures received major damage, while 35 received minor damage. Losses were estimated at 5 million dollars.
March 1997Tornado (F1)Dunnville$200,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindDunnville$5,000Trees were downed and there was unspecified damage to a building.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDunnville-A large tree limb was blown down, blocking one lane of US Route 127 in southern Casey County.
July 2023HailDunnville-Quarter sized hail was observed in Dunnville.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindDunnville-A tree was blown down by strong winds on River Road.
May 2022HailDunnville-Ping pong ball-sized hail was observed in the Dunnville community.
October 2014HailDunnville-A spotter 2 miles south of Rheber reported quarter sized hail that covered the ground.
July 2013HailDunnville-A spotter reported 1.75 inch hail on Goose Creek Road.
March 2013FloodDunnville-The Casey County Road Department reported that River Road in Dunnville was impassable. A Kentucky Mesonet rain gauge nearby measured just above 2 inches of rain over a 5 hour period.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindDunnville-A tree was blown down.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindDunnville-A tree was blown down and was blocking the roadway.
June 2005HailDunnville-no account filed
June 2005HailDunnville-no account filed
August 2000Thunderstorm WindDunnville-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDunnville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Riffe Creek (historical)1.8 miles9
Red Hill2.0 miles9
Evans Ford2.5 miles7
Phil3.2 miles7
Rubert Ford3.3 miles7
Luttrell (historical)3.7 miles7
Teddy3.9 miles7
Rheber4.1 miles10

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 DunnvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315627The 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 491339. 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.