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Etoile, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tracy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42131. The Survey maps it on the Tracy quadrangle. It stands 728 feet above sea level.

Etoile within Barren 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Etoile in 2016, burning about 20 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
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
30 October 2016Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUTTON RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren 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 Etoile: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
Congo Bottom ProspectBarium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Barren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Etoile in 2 storm reports in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2013Thunderstorm WindEtoile-A COOP observer measured a 54 knot wind gust.
March 2013FloodEtoile-Flooding impeded traffic along several roads across southern Barren County, including Ritter Mill, Crabtree, and Dover Church Roads.

Every storm recorded in Barren 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
Dry Fork1.9 miles9
Cooktown2.2 miles9
Roseville3.8 miles10
Peter Creek4.2 miles9
Temple Hill4.5 miles10
Tracy4.5 miles9
Austin6.4 miles12
Bristletown6.9 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 EtoileAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5404758The 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 507952. 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.