Hail, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mount Victory census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42501. It lies near Pond Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Hail quadrangle.

Hail within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Hail quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Hail quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Hail between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,835 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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
Arson/incendiarism	19
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BURNT CAR
8 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	POWER LINE
7 April 2020	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GULF RIDGE
6 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	SNAKE POND
24 April 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hail in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hail	-	Trees were reported down along Jasper Bend Road.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Hargis	2.5 miles	17
Poplarville	2.5 miles	14
Northfield	2.5 miles	11
Meece	3.4 miles	11
Colo	3.7 miles	14
Omega	3.8 miles	12
Blue John	4.6 miles	17
Mount Victory	4.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512500. 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.