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Forest Grove, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ford-Boonesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle. It stands 1,047 feet above sea level.

Forest Grove within Clark County

On record in Forest Grove

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Forest Grove between 2007 and 2017, burning about 3 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
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMT. MORIAH FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Forest Grove: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boonesboro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Grove in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindForest Grove-There were multiple trees down.
August 2016Flash FloodForest Grove-Local broadcast media reported flash flooding on Old Boonesboro Road near Heather Lane. This resulted in the road closing because of high water flowing over it.
June 2010Flash FloodForest Grove-Old Boonesboro Rd. and Fieldstone Way were closed due to high water.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindForest Grove-Trees were down across roads in the southwest part of the county.
April 2017HailForest Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Flanagan1.1 miles17
Providence (historical)1.7 miles17
Lyndale1.9 miles17
Elkin2.3 miles17
Hampton Manor3.1 miles17
Lisletown3.2 miles15
Becknerville3.3 miles15
Colby Hills3.3 miles17

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 Forest GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690417The 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 492319. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.