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Halls Gap, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40489. The Survey maps it on the Halls Gap quadrangle.

Halls Gap within Lincoln County

On record in Halls Gap

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

5 surveys from 8 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

40 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Halls Gap between 1998 and 2020, burning about 529 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning12
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLANDFILL
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAZZLETT HOLLOW
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPETTIT
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHOLE IN TH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Halls Gap: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Eastside Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Westside Roadcut Clay BedFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halls Gap in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2002HailHalls Gap$20,000Windows were knocked out of homes.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindHalls Gap$8,000The emergency manager reported trees down and power outages due to severe thunderstorm winds.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHalls Gap-Trees were down on Fairground Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHalls Gap-A tree was down along Route 643, south of Sanford.
January 2006HailHalls Gap-no account filed
May 1996HailHalls Gap-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
Maywood1.5 miles7
Avondale (historical)2.2 miles7
Highland2.6 miles8
Pine Grove (historical)2.6 miles7
Miracle2.6 miles8
West Lynn (historical)2.9 miles13
Jumbo3.0 miles8
Ottenheim3.3 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122558377The 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 493604. 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.