Gainesville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Settle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. It stands on Solomon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Scottsville quadrangle.

Gainesville within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1926 USGS Scottsville quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Scottsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Gainesville in 2010, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gainesville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Gainesville	-	Trees down on Port Oliver Road.
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gainesville	-	Trees and power lines were downed near Highway 101.

Every storm recorded in Allen 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Yesse	2.1 miles	11
Stark Settlement (historical)	2.1 miles	9
Meador	3.0 miles	9
Cedar Springs	3.1 miles	12
Port Oliver Ford	3.2 miles	9
Settle	3.2 miles	11
Halifax	4.7 miles	11
Bailey (historical)	5.6 miles	13

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 Gainesville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65074990	The 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 492651. 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.