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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Faubush quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Faubush quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROWN RIDGE |
| 17 April 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 205 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | KING TOWN# 2 |
| 10 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PARKWAY |
| 31 October 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
29 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Lightning | Faubush | $20,000 | Lightning struck a barn and the resulting fire burned it to the ground. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | $6,000 | A tree fell onto a garage at the 2400 block of Faubush Road near the community of Nancy. |
| October 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | $5,000 | Trees were blown down in Faubush. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | $5,000 | Numerous trees and power lines down. |
| June 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | $3,000 | Power lines were downed. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | $3,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | $2,000 | Trees were reported blown down across the road, resulting in downed powerlines at the 2100 block of Faubush Road near the community of Faubush. |
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Faubush | $1,000 | A weather service employee conducting damage survey of earlier tornado reported that he observed 6 to 12 inches of water flowing across Burnetta Road. |
| July 2016 | Flood | Faubush | $500 | Dispatch 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | A tree was downed and completely blocking Hudson Road (Calhoun Road) near the intersection of Burnetta Road, northwest of the community of Nancy. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Trees were blocking the entire roadway on Hwy-196, just past the Faubush Fire Department, near the community of Nancy. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | 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 2017 | Hail | Faubush | - | Law enforcement reported quarter sized hail in Faubush. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Dispatch reported multiple trees down from Beasley Road northwest of Nancy to the intersection of University Drive and Main Street in Somerset. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Numerous trees were down in the Burton subdivision off Richardson Rd. |
| July 2009 | Hail | Faubush | - | Golf ball size hail fell in Faubush. The report had to be entered in EDT due to software limitations. |
| June 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Two trees down. |
| August 2006 | Flash Flood | Faubush | - | Highway 196 in Faubush covered with 8 to 10 inches of water. Road impassable. |
| April 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Trees down. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Trees were downed. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Faubush | - | Trees were downed. |
| April 2006 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| March 2003 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Faubush | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Q122539199 | The 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.




