BlockGeneva, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Corydon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42420. It stands on Weymouth Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle.
On record in Geneva
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Indian Valley, Genevafederal building survey, 2 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1914 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Wilson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Geneva between 1998 and 2010, burning about 27 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 October 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | POWERLINE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Geneva in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneva | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 136. The highway was blocked for several hours for cleanup and repair. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Geneva | $6,000 | At a residence on Kentucky 136 in Geneva, three huge oak trees and numerous other large tree limbs were blown down. The roof of the house was damaged. In the city of Henderson, a couple of trees and a power line were down. |
| May 2024 | Flood | Geneva | $2,000 | Flood waters rose around a few buildings in the Hwy 136 West area on the west side of the county. |
| May 2010 | Flood | Geneva | - | Kentucky Highway 812 was closed between mile markers two and four. Kentucky 1557 was closed between mile markers two and three. Several other secondary roads were closed throughout the county. Rainfall at Henderson was 4.5 inches. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Geneva | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Smith Mills | 3.8 miles | 17 | |
| Finley Addition | 3.9 miles | 18 | |
| Corydon | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Henderson | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Weaverton | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Rock Springs | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Rankin | 6.4 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492770. 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.