Ellisburg, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dividing Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40437. It stands on Coffman Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ellisburg quadrangle.

Ellisburg within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1952 USGS Ellisburg quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Ellisburg between 1998 and 2019, burning about 476 acres in total. None 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1998	Smoking	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2014	Debris and open burning	52 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MINORS BRANCH
16 April 2008	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellisburg in 1 storm report in 2003: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellisburg	-	Trees were downed.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Neelys Gap (historical)	2.0 miles	8
Ruletown (historical)	2.5 miles	8
Peytons Store	2.8 miles	8
Dogwood (historical)	2.9 miles	8
Butchertown	3.4 miles	10
Frey Creek (historical)	3.6 miles	8
Carpenter Creek (historical)	3.6 miles	8
Chilton	3.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507928. 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.