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Fern Creek, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Southeast Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40291. It lies near Evergreen Hill. The Survey maps it on the Jeffersontown quadrangle.

Fern Creek within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Fern Creek between 2001 and 2014, burning about 11 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/undetermined1
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
14 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBROAD RUN
3 October 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fern Creek in 21 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
May 2004Tornado (F0)Fern Creek$100,000A weak tornado touched down just east of Bardstown Road near the entrance to the Glenmary subdivision. Significant large tree damage occurred. Roofs showed minor structural damage, but most damage was due to structures being hit by falling trees. The tornado lifted just east of the subdivision, and a funnel cloud was reported near the Gene Snyder Freeway and Billtown Road.
May 2005LightningFern Creek$10,000A lightning strike caused a house fire on Pepperdine Court.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-Large tree limbs were broken by strong winds in Fern Creek.
May 2023HailFern Creek-Half dollar sized hail fell near Jeffersontown.
June 2023HailFern Creek-Quarter sized hail was observed in Fern Creek.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-A tree was down across Hudson Lane, near St. Gabriel Church.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-An off-duty NWS employee reported trees down on Stony Brook Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-An off-duty NWS employee reported a large tree split in half.
July 2015Flash FloodFern Creek-A public report was received that indicated that streets in the South Fern Creek area were flooding as a result of several inches of rain from intense thunderstorms.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-The public reported trees down in Fern Creek. A nearly the same time, a 56 mph wind gust was measured by an unofficial wind sensor at the NWS office in Louisville. The ASOS at Standiford airport in Louisville measured a 52 mph wind gust.
April 2013HailFern Creek-A spotter in Fern Creek reported 1 inch hail.
April 2012HailFern Creek-Numerous reports of damaging hail were received from the Fern Creek area. One spotter reported 2 inch hail. Large hail damaged vehicles and the siding of several homes. A NWS employee observed many leaves stripped from trees and localized fog resulting from patches of hail left on the ground 2 hours after the storm passed.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-Four large trees were downed in the Seatonville Road area.
April 1999Flash FloodFern Creek-Roads flooded in Fern creek area
April 1999Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-Trees down
March 2025HailFern Creek-no account filed
April 2012HailFern Creek-no account filed
May 2006HailFern Creek-no account filed
May 2004HailFern Creek-no account filed
October 2000Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-no account filed
July 1996Thunderstorm WindFern Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Ashville1.8 miles17
Mansfield Estates1.9 miles17
Brentlinger1.9 miles17
Watterson Woods1.9 miles17
Hollow Creek2.0 miles17
Highview2.3 miles17
Glenmary2.3 miles17
Spring Mill2.5 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492041. 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.