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Fiddle Bow, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dawson Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42408. The Survey maps it on the Coiltown quadrangle. It stands 515 feet above sea level.

Fiddle Bow within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Fiddle Bow between 1999 and 2014, burning about 373 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural1

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
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONE TREE FIRE
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULAH 109
9 August 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLIGHTNING
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined43 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBURNT BUZZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fiddle Bow in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 heavy rain. 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 2010Heavy RainFiddle Bow-Six to seven inches of water was flowing across Highway 502.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Beulah1.4 miles13
Sixth Vein1.6 miles13
Rabbit Ridge2.3 miles13
Charleston3.3 miles13
Richland3.4 miles14
Colitown Junction4.6 miles13
Oriole5.0 miles14
Coiltown5.5 miles13

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 Fiddle BowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690387The 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 507993. 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.