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Falls of Rough, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Glen Dean-Vanzant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. It lies near McQuady Glen. The Survey maps it on the Falls of Rough quadrangle. It stands 486 feet above sea level.

Falls of Rough within Breckinridge County

On record in Falls of Rough

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Falls of Rough between 1999 and 2012, burning about 160 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTICK RIDGE
30 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLAINE HILL
25 September 1999Smoking11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Debris and open burning70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falls of Rough in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. 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
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Falls Of Rough-This tornado is a continuation of the western Kentucky (Mayfield) tornado and will go down as the longest continuous tornado track on record in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at 163 miles (plus another two miles in Tennessee). This tornado developed in Obion County, Tennessee near Woodland Mills Road before tracking to the northeast through western Kentucky and on into central Kentucky (see Storm Data from the Memphis, Tennessee and the Paducah, Kentucky offices for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado). The tornado finally came to an end in Grayson County, Kentucky at Rough River Dam State Park. This is the second of five segments of this tornado in the Louisville, Kentucky County Warning Area. The tornado arrived in Breckinridge County, crossed Schneider Road, and damaged a cattle barn and trees, before entering Grayson County.
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Falls Of Rough-This tornado is a continuation of the western Kentucky (Mayfield) tornado and will go down as the longest continuous tornado track on record in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at 163 miles (plus another two miles in Tennessee). This tornado developed in Obion County, Tennessee near Woodland Mills Road before tracking to the northeast through western Kentucky and on into central Kentucky (see Storm Data from the Memphis, Tennessee and the Paducah, Kentucky offices for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado). This is the fourth of five segments of this tornado in the Louisville, Kentucky County Warning Area. The tornado finally came to an end in Grayson County, Kentucky at Rough River Dam State Park. The tornado continued onward crossing Highway 110, going over a ridgetop and snapping more trees. More extensive tree damage occurred as the tornado briefly paralleled another portion of the Rough River as it crossed Old Railroad Bed Road.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindFalls Of Rough-The Breckinridge emergency manager reported several trees down near the town of Falls of Rough.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindFalls Of Rough-Several trees were downed near Falls of Rough. Two downed trees blocked Rolling Stone Acres Ln. and Kiper-Whitworth Rd.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Dempster2.5 miles13
Rockvale3.3 miles13
Glen Dean4.4 miles13
Cannons Point4.7 miles12
Vanzant5.0 miles13
Hinton Hills5.2 miles12
Axtel5.4 miles13
McDaniels6.7 miles12

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 Falls of RoughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5432536The 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 507976. 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.