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Glensboro, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Northwest Anderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40342. It stands on Timber Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glensboro quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Glensboro within Anderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Glensboro between 2001 and 2006, burning about 95 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/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 March 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined38 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Anderson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glensboro in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2016: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 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 2016Thunderstorm WindGlensboro$25,000Trained spotters reported tree damage to a structure.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGlensboro-State officials reported trees down on Vaughn Road due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGlensboro-Local emergency management reported several trees down near the intersection of Mt. Eden and Bridge Hill Roads.
May 2011Flash FloodGlensboro-A swift water rescue was performed.
May 1996HailGlensboro-no account filed
May 1996Tornado (F0)Glensboro-no account filed
April 1996Thunderstorm WindGlensboro-no account filed
April 1996HailGlensboro-no account filed
November 1996Thunderstorm WindGlensboro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Anderson 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
Anderson City1.8 miles9
Drydock2.3 miles9
Pleasant Grove (historical)2.7 miles9
Wayside2.8 miles9
Gee2.8 miles9
Jefferies (historical)3.1 miles9
Birdie3.3 miles9
Sinai3.9 miles9

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 GlensboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5569324The 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 492908. 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.