BlockHemp Ridge, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Harrisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40076. It stands on Waddy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waddy quadrangle. It stands 728 feet above sea level.
On record in Hemp Ridge
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 3 records
Robertson Houselisted 1988- Shropshire Farmlisted 1988
- Shelby D. Ware Houselisted 1988
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1923 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:48000
- 1925 USGS Mount Eden quadrangle1:48000
- 1927 USGS Mount Eden quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Hemp Ridge between 2005 and 2010, burning about 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LEWIS FIRE |
| 16 February 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2022Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemp Ridge in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hemp Ridge | - | A tree fell near Hempridge Church Road. |
| April 2022 | Tornado (EF1) | Hemp Ridge | - | The National Weather Service in Louisville confirmed an EF-1 tornado in Eastern Shelby County. The tornado touched down just west of 2402 Highway 714, twisting a bunch of cedar trees, and then crossing 714 doing extensive tree damage. Trees were twisted, snapped, uprooted, and facing from north through southeasterly directions. The tornado uprooted and snapped dozens of trees on Bob Jeff Road, destroying one barn, just north of I-64. Large sections of the 30 by 20 solid barn were thrown 60 yards and several 2 X 4 boards were impaled in the ground. Strangely enough, a large chicken coop next to the barn which was on blocks was not moved at all. The survey crew was a bit perplexed when they located a large dismantled barn on Wolf Run. Parts of the barn were thrown 250 yards downwind. There were straight line winds in between 659 Bob Jeff Road and the barn on the southside of I-64 on Wolf Run Road. Based on radar, there was at least 2 small funnels from the same larger circulation, and for a brief time, two of them touched down, each about 100 yards wide. However, they were part of the same mesovortex with max wind of 90 mph. Another interesting thing about the solid barn on Wolf Run Road, is that a hoop barn, and an older barn, both of which were on both sides of the dismantled barn, had only minor damage. In fact, the long narrow hoop barn, only 10 yards away, was left unscathed. Along Buzzard Roost Road, just east of the Shelby Knobs. An older barn`s metal sheeting, and sections of the roof were thrown up to 300 yards east northeast. Maximum wind speeds in this area were 80 mph. A 15 by 10 foot storage outbuilding was picked up and debris thrown up to 300 yards. A large oak tree was uprooted and leaning on top of a well built house. Numerous pine and cedar trees were snapped and twisted. Several other barns had significant roof and side panel damage. Wind speeds in this area were 90 mph. The tornado straddled Highway 60, and did significant telephone pole damage and tree damage all along Highway 60. Poles were twisted and snapped over a 1 mile area. Wind speeds in this area were 90 mph. The last tornado damage point was along Highway 395 in Peytona. A couple of barns had minor roof damage and a couple of trees were snapped. Winds were estimated to be 75 mph at this location. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waddy | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hooper | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Clay Village | 3.1 miles | 13 | |
| Peytona | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Southville | 4.3 miles | 12 | |
| Junte | 4.8 miles | 9 | |
| Harrisonville | 5.0 miles | 9 | |
| Graefenburg | 5.6 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.
| Wikipedia article on Hemp Ridge | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690585 | 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 508221. 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.