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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Newburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Spottsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
4 photographs, 1916Taken 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.
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
3 since 1999Regional 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 ceremony | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROKEN POL |
| 20 February 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DAYTONA FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1999Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebbardsville | $4,000 | Large trees were blown down, along with power lines. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebbardsville | $3,000 | Trees were blown down. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebbardsville | $2,000 | Two trees were uprooted. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebbardsville | $2,000 | Large tree limbs were down. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hebbardsville | - | A trained spotter estimated winds gusted to 60 mph. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Hebbardsville | - | 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 2016 | Hail | Hebbardsville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff City | 1.8 miles | 14 | |
| Reed | 5.3 miles | 14 | |
| Euterpe | 5.5 miles | 13 | |
| Spottsville | 6.0 miles | 14 | |
| Coraville | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Zion | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Beals | 6.4 miles | 14 | |
| Niagara | 7.0 miles | 13 |
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 Q122557119 | The 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.







