Hayes, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falmouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41040. It stands on Johnsons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Falmouth quadrangle.

Hayes within Pendleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1930 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Hayes between 1999 and 2000, burning about 26 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 burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 April 1999	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 February 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pendleton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayes in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2025	Flash Flood	Hayes	$15,000	Local officials had to perform two separate water rescues after vehicles were driven into high water.
December 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayes	$3,000	Two trees were reported down along Highway 330 and several trees were downed across other portions of Pendleton County due to thunderstorm winds.
February 2021	Flood	Hayes	-	High water was reported on several roads throughout the county.

Every storm recorded in Pendleton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Falmouth	2.7 miles	10
Four Oaks	2.7 miles	10
Morgan	3.6 miles	9
Callensville (historical)	3.8 miles	9
Goforth	4.5 miles	10
Fruit Hill (historical)	4.6 miles	11
Catawba	5.4 miles	10
Concord	6.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508208. 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.