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Faubush, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Nancy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42544. It lies near Barker Knob. The Survey maps it on the Faubush quadrangle.

Faubush within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Faubush between 2004 and 2016, burning about 237 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
13 September 2008Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROWN RIDGE
17 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined205 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKING TOWN# 2
10 April 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 2011Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPARKWAY
31 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faubush in 29 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 10 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2003LightningFaubush$20,000Lightning struck a barn and the resulting fire burned it to the ground.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFaubush$6,000A tree fell onto a garage at the 2400 block of Faubush Road near the community of Nancy.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindFaubush$5,000Trees were blown down in Faubush.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindFaubush$5,000Numerous trees and power lines down.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindFaubush$3,000Power lines were downed.
March 1997Thunderstorm WindFaubush$3,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFaubush$2,000Trees were reported blown down across the road, resulting in downed powerlines at the 2100 block of Faubush Road near the community of Faubush.
July 2015Flash FloodFaubush$1,000A weather service employee conducting damage survey of earlier tornado reported that he observed 6 to 12 inches of water flowing across Burnetta Road.
July 2016FloodFaubush$500Dispatch relayed reports of standing water on numerous roads, including Highways 80, 1664, and Faubush Road. Water was reported to be up to the hoods of a few trucks. Radar estimated rainfall amounts of up to four inches were observed southeast of Faubush.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFaubush-A tree was downed and completely blocking Hudson Road (Calhoun Road) near the intersection of Burnetta Road, northwest of the community of Nancy.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Trees were blocking the entire roadway on Hwy-196, just past the Faubush Fire Department, near the community of Nancy.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Trees were reported down for about a mile along Highway 1664 near the intersection with Pierce Road (Sputter Branch Road), just west of Nancy. Many of the trees were partially rotten or small, and survey conducted by emergency management concluded the damage was from straightline winds.
May 2017HailFaubush-Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail in Faubush.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Dispatch reported multiple trees down from Beasley Road northwest of Nancy to the intersection of University Drive and Main Street in Somerset.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Numerous trees were down in the Burton subdivision off Richardson Rd.
July 2009HailFaubush-Golf ball size hail fell in Faubush. The report had to be entered in EDT due to software limitations.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Two trees down.
August 2006Flash FloodFaubush-Highway 196 in Faubush covered with 8 to 10 inches of water. Road impassable.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Trees down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Trees were downed.
July 1997Thunderstorm WindFaubush-Trees were downed.
April 2006HailFaubush-no account filed
June 2006HailFaubush-no account filed
September 2006HailFaubush-no account filed
June 2004HailFaubush-no account filed
March 2003HailFaubush-no account filed
November 2002HailFaubush-no account filed
April 2000HailFaubush-no account filed
May 1998HailFaubush-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Burnetta1.3 miles8
Ingle2.6 miles8
Norfleet2.6 miles8
Nancy4.2 miles10
Dorena4.2 miles8
Naomi4.3 miles8
Delmer5.5 miles10
Pointer5.6 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122539199The 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 492000. 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.