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Hebbardsville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hebbardsville-Robards census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42420. The Survey maps it on the Spottsville quadrangle.

Hebbardsville within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

4 photographs, 1916

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Boy 16 and brother 20. Family of A. W. Galloway, Hebbardsville, Route 1. Boys go to Keats (or Bethel) School.  Location: Henderson County--[Hebbardsville], Kentucky
Boy 16 and brother 20. Family of A. W. Galloway, Hebbardsville, Route 1. Boys go to Keats (or Bethel) School. Location: Henderson County--[Hebbardsville], Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Pruett School which opened September 5th. 61 pupils in District and only 28 present. Expect an enrollment of 50. Only 1 boy of 11; the rest are 9 years and younger. Many out for work.  Location: Henderson County--Hebbardsville [vicinity], Kentucky
Pruett School which opened September 5th. 61 pupils in District and only 28 present. Expect an enrollment of 50. Only 1 boy of 11; the rest are 9 years and younger. Many out for work. Location: Henderson County--Hebbardsville [vicinity], Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Home of Wyatt Pruett (in doorway). His father is a prosperous farmer but the boy stays out of school to work. Will go to Pruett School.  Location: Henderson County--Hebbardsville [vicinity], Kentucky
Home of Wyatt Pruett (in doorway). His father is a prosperous farmer but the boy stays out of school to work. Will go to Pruett School. Location: Henderson County--Hebbardsville [vicinity], Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hebbardsville School. Principal is new and said "Only a few absent." School opened September 5th.  Location: Henderson County, Kentucky
Hebbardsville School. Principal is new and said "Only a few absent." School opened September 5th. Location: Henderson County, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hebbardsville between 1999 and 2012, burning about 48 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBROKEN POL
20 February 2011Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAYTONA FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hebbardsville in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
July 2006Thunderstorm WindHebbardsville$4,000Large trees were blown down, along with power lines.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHebbardsville$3,000Trees were blown down.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindHebbardsville$2,000Two trees were uprooted.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindHebbardsville$2,000Large tree limbs were down.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindHebbardsville-A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph.
February 2019FloodHebbardsville-Moderate flooding occurred on the Ohio River. At the Owensboro river gage, the river crested at 44.5 feet on the 17th. Flood stage there is 40 feet. Low-lying woodlands and fields in the river bottomlands were flooded. Numerous roads were flooded, including some state roads. Backwater from the Ohio River caused flooding near the mouth of the Green River, which flooded roads in eastern Henderson County. Flooded roads extended inland to near Hebbardsville.
May 2016HailHebbardsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Bluff City1.8 miles14
Reed5.3 miles14
Euterpe5.5 miles13
Spottsville6.0 miles14
Coraville6.0 miles13
Zion6.3 miles14
Beals6.4 miles14
Niagara7.0 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.

Wikidata item Q122557119The 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 493984. 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.