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Forest Hills, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41527. It lies near Pauley Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Williamson quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Forest Hills within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Forest Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,819 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Fireworks14
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2000Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 May 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestrySYCAMORE CK.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Hills in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindForest Hills$40,000Trees were blown with one tree holding three others back about to fall on road and homes.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindForest Hills$500Estimated winds at 50 to 60 mph with small limbs down.
August 2007HailForest Hills-no account filed
April 2005HailForest Hills-no account filed
May 2004HailForest Hills-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Road Fork (historical)0.2 miles23
New Camp1.6 miles23
Belfry1.8 miles19
Leckieville1.8 miles23
Goody2.1 miles23
Toler2.2 miles23
Sharondale2.4 miles19
Turkey Creek2.4 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q136298420The 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 507355. 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.