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Haskingsville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gresham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42743. It stands on Skinhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gresham quadrangle.

Haskingsville within Green County

On record in Haskingsville

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Haskingsville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
20 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHARMON ROAD
24 August 1999Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLEMONS BEND RD. FIRE
5 March 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRAMLETT
4 March 2017Debris and open burning5.3 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRUSSELL CREEK
30 March 1998Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haskingsville in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2022Flash FloodHaskingsville-Green County Dispatch reported ongoing water rescue near KY SR 1913 (Coburg Road). A vehicle was located in high water, with three people on top of the vehicle. Multiple departments were on scene attempting water rescue. Dispatch received the first call for water recue around 5:18 AM Eastern Time. Damage amount unknown.
June 2018FloodHaskingsville-There was water over Ebenezer Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHaskingsville-A spotter reported several trees down along Columbia Highway near the Green - Adair county line.
May 2010Flash FloodHaskingsville-Kentucky 61 was closed from mile marker 1 to 2 due to high water. KY 487 was also closed at the 1 mile marker due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Mount Gilead1.1 miles10
Gresham3.0 miles10
Bramlett3.9 miles10
Roachville4.0 miles10
Kemp4.8 miles10
Fry5.7 miles10
Whitewood7.0 miles9
Bluff Boom7.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508202. 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.