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Hadley, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hadley-Browning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. It stands on Belcher Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hadley quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Hadley within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hadley between 1997 and 2010, burning about 320 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 1999Debris and open burning26 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Debris and open burning17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hadley: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Sugar Grove ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

16 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hadley in 16 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 9 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHadley-There were 20 to 30 trees knocked down from strong thunderstorm winds on a farm along Morgantown Road.
November 2019FloodHadley-About a foot of water was flowing across Hadley Cohron Road, about a mile west of Highway 626.
February 2018FloodHadley-KY 626 closed at US 231 due to high water and flooding.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindHadley-A public report was received of trees down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
February 2012HailHadley-Quarter-sized hail was reported just north of Hadley, in Warren County.
June 2009HailHadley-Location is estimated. The report of penny size hail was on the Butler and Warren County line.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindHadley-Thunderstorm winds downed trees across the intersection of Highways 231 and 626.
April 2008Thunderstorm WindHadley-Several trees were downed.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHadley-A two foot diameter tree was downed and blocking a roadway.
May 2025HailHadley-no account filed
March 2020HailHadley-no account filed
June 2006HailHadley-no account filed
August 2004HailHadley-no account filed
February 2002HailHadley-no account filed
May 2000HailHadley-no account filed
May 2000HailHadley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Rockland2.4 miles13
Guy4.4 miles13
Barren River4.8 miles13
Benleo5.0 miles13
Clark Landing5.2 miles14
Greencastle6.3 miles15
Blue Level6.7 miles10
Mount Pisgah (historical)7.1 miles14

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 HadleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690513The 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 508154. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.