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Finchville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Simpsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40022. The Survey maps it on the Simpsonville quadrangle. It stands 771 feet above sea level.

Finchville within Shelby County

On record in Finchville

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 11 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Finchville in 2005, burning about 10 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/undetermined2

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
8 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Finchville in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado, 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
April 1996Thunderstorm WindFinchville$30,000no account filed
March 2012Tornado (EF1)Finchville$25,000This tornado touched down 1.6 miles east-southeast of Finchville just north of the end of Duvall Lane. It then traveled north-northeast and produced a track of just over 2 miles over mainly plowed field and strips of forest. Two barns were destroyed. Two other barns has much of their roofs removed. In one case, portions of the roof were strewn downwind across a field and became lodged within a grove of trees. More than two dozen trees were snapped or uprooted. It lifted 1 mile south of the intersection of Taylorsville Road and Interstate 64.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindFinchville$20,000Two houses damaged by trees. A barn lost part of a roof. All damage occurred from one mile North of Finchville to Logan State Road. Report from Shelby County Department of Emergency Service and HAM Radio spotter.
August 2021LightningFinchville$10,000There was a structure fire caused by a lightning strike. Cost of damage is unknown.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindFinchville$10,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindFinchville-Trees fell down.
July 2023HailFinchville-Quarter sized hail was observed near Finchville.
June 2015HailFinchville-A broadcast meteorologist relayed a report to the NWS of nickel size hail.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFinchville-The Shelby County emergency manager reported that several trees fell down in the Finchville area.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFinchville-no account filed
April 2005HailFinchville-no account filed
May 2003HailFinchville-no account filed
November 2000Thunderstorm WindFinchville-no account filed
April 1996HailFinchville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Veech2.4 miles11
Olive Branch3.2 miles11
Figgs3.5 miles11
Joyes4.0 miles11
Veechdale4.4 miles11
Montclair4.7 miles11
Sunnyside (historical)4.8 miles12
Simpsonville5.3 miles11

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 FinchvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5449846The 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 492079. 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.