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Hatcher, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Campbellsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. The Survey maps it on the Campbellsville quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Hatcher within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Hatcher between 1998 and 2019, burning about 77 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined8
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1

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
5 June 2002Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLEMONS BEND RD. FIRE
6 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatcher in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindHatcher-A trained spotter reported a large tree limb down and damaged a swing set on Blue Hole Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHatcher-A trained spotter reported a six inch diameter tree fell down near KY 55 but did not block the roadway.
July 2009Flash FloodHatcher-A person was rescued from a vehicle on KY 3098 near the Taylor-Green County Line.
June 2007HailHatcher-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Burdick1.5 miles9
Wrights2.2 miles9
South Campbellsville3.4 miles11
Campbellsville3.6 miles11
Atchison3.6 miles11
Romine4.2 miles12
Sweeneyville4.3 miles9
Elk Horn4.6 miles11

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 HatcherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690561The 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 508203. 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.