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Flint Hill, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sonora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42776. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Upton quadrangle.

Flint Hill within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Flint Hill between 1999 and 2018, burning about 150 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2010Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 84
22 September 2010Smoking7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAMISH ROAD
30 April 2018Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPTON
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPLEASANT HILL CHURCH
31 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILLERSTOWN ROAD
19 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEESE FIRE
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHAW CREEK ROAD
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flint Hill in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
September 2024Thunderstorm WindFlint Hill-Several large tree branches were blown down along Brackett Cemetery Road.
April 2011Heavy RainFlint Hill-A spotter reported 2.83 inches fell from 7 pm on the 11th through the morning of the 12th. The storm total rainfall was 4.19 inches.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindFlint Hill-A spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph winds. Many limbs were blown down including some up to 3 inches in diameter.
May 2006Tornado (F0)Flint Hill-A line of thunderstorms produced an F0 tornado that did some tree damage over southern Hardin County.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Melrose0.6 miles12
Seven Corners1.1 miles12
Spurrier3.8 miles14
Harcourt4.1 miles18
White Mills4.5 miles18
Sonora5.5 miles14
Upton5.6 miles12
White Mills Junction6.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508014. 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.