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Halfway, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Halfway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. The Survey maps it on the Allen Springs quadrangle.

Halfway within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Halfway between 2007 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTOWER FIRE
23 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySQUIRE LIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen 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 Halfway: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Allen County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halfway in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2023HailHalfway-Quarter sized hail observed near Halfway.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindHalfway-Local Law enforcement reported several trees down in Halfway.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindHalfway-Trees were downed in Halfway.

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
West Fork1.2 miles13
Butlersville1.2 miles13
Allen Springs2.7 miles13
Trammel3.1 miles13
Pope3.2 miles13
Halifax3.6 miles11
Red Hill3.8 miles12
Bailey (historical)3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508159. 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.