High Plains, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40175. The Survey maps it on the Big Spring quadrangle.

High Plains within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1941 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Ekron quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Big Spring quadrangle1:24000
1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of High Plains between 1998 and 2019, burning about 220 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	14
Debris and open burning	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 August 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STERRETT RD. FIRE
2 May 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLUE FORK ROAD
7 April 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2013	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ST. JOHNS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Plains in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2023	Flash Flood	High Plains	-	Six water rescues occurred in eastern Breckinridge County.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	High Plains	-	A barn was destroyed on High Plains Rd. just northeast of Custer. Multiple power outage were also reported in Custer.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Corners	1.8 miles	14
High Plains Corner	2.1 miles	14
Custer	3.3 miles	11
Big Spring	3.6 miles	14
Rosetta	3.7 miles	16
Graysville	4.6 miles	16
Dyer	4.7 miles	18
Bewleyville	4.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508236. 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.