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Hestand, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tompkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42167. The Survey maps it on the Tompkinsville quadrangle. It stands 879 feet above sea level.

Hestand within Monroe County

On record in Hestand

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

50 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Hestand between 1999 and 2016, burning about 999 acres in total. 1 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 burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1
Smoking1

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
26 September 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 August 2011Natural6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFACTORY
6 April 2010Debris and open burning133 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE SULFUR
5 April 1999Debris and open burning3.5 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burning71 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Smoking26 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hestand: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Uranium, Oil Shale. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hestand in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHestand-Several large trees, as well as power lines, were downed along Kentucky Route 163 in southern Monroe County.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHestand-Local law enforcement reported that several trees were downed near State Highway 163.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHestand-Trees were downed in several areas with damage to several outbuildings reported.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Boles3.1 miles11
Harlan Crossroads3.9 miles13
Otia3.9 miles13
Blythe4.5 miles13
Coe4.7 miles13
Tompkinsville4.7 miles13
Grandview5.4 miles13
Vernon6.5 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 HestandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15223788The 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 494096. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.