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Ensor, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42366. The Survey maps it on the Maceo quadrangle.

Ensor within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Ensor between 2001 and 2014, burning about 50 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/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOWER TOWER
28 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAN
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry20 BAIL
29 March 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD CAR
10 March 2001Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRIDGE RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ensor: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Daviess County DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kapco DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
No. 9 DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
W. L. Delker DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ensor in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
January 2023FloodEnsor-Water was over numerous roads in the county, though no closures were reported. Some of the roads with water on them included Kentucky Routes 762, 298, 919, and 69, U.S. Highway 62 at the 10-mile marker, and U.S. Highway 231.

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Woodcrest1.5 miles18
Mount Zion (historical)1.9 miles16
Spice Knob2.0 miles16
Brownwood Manor2.6 miles18
Thruston2.6 miles18
Covent Gardens (historical)3.3 miles18
Pates (historical)3.6 miles18
Bethlehem (historical)3.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 491791. 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.