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Gilbert, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Stanford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40444. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle.

Gilbert within Lincoln County

On record in Gilbert

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Gilbert between 1997 and 2013, burning about 94 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Debris and open burning2
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
25 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH FORK
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gilbert in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindGilbert-Trees were down along Goshen Road.
August 2013Flash FloodGilbert-Gilbert's Creek Road was closed when Turkey Creek overflowed a bridge.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGilbert-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Mount Zenia (historical)1.3 miles12
Goshen1.6 miles12
Logantown2.1 miles13
Hubble3.6 miles13
Morgan Manor Addition3.6 miles13
Rowland4.0 miles13
Preachersville4.5 miles12
Stanford4.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508086. 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.