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Hillgrove, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Flaherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40142. The Survey maps it on the Guston quadrangle.

Hillgrove within Meade 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.

Fires near this place

22 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Hillgrove between 2003 and 2017, burning about 153 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOBBS LANE
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillgrove in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Flash FloodHillgrove-US 60 was flooded near Shumate Road.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHillgrove-There was a tree down over US 60 near Hill Grove.
March 2008Flash FloodHillgrove-Scott Hill Road was closed due to high water. Knob Road and Pine Ridge Road near Battletown were closed due to high water. Some roads near Rhodelia were covered with water.

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Garrett3.0 miles16
Guston3.2 miles14
Buck Grove3.3 miles14
Ekron3.5 miles14
Maples Corner3.6 miles14
Hog Wallow3.6 miles16
Johnstown (historical)4.2 miles14
Haysville4.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508241. 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.