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Hatton, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Christianburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40601. The Survey maps it on the Waddy quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Hatton within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Hatton between 1999 and 2014, burning about 24 acres 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOW PIE
27 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 November 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatton in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
September 2022Flash FloodHatton-A home was swept off of its foundation at 7701 Hatton Road along the Dutch Fork, resulting in the rescue of two individuals in that home. Seven other homes received damage along the Dutch Fork, including along Quisenberry Lane.

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
North Benson Hills (historical)2.3 miles10
Consolation2.9 miles10
Jacksonville3.4 miles10
Bagdad3.7 miles10
Peytona4.2 miles13
Graefenburg4.8 miles13
Old Christianburg5.7 miles10
Clay Village5.8 miles13

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 HattonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5682120The 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 508205. 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.