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Hillsboro, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41049. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. It stands 863 feet above sea level.

Hillsboro within Fleming County

On record in Hillsboro

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

4 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro between 1999 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
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
4 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined42 acresKentucky Division of ForestryISHMAEL RD
3 April 2013Debris and open burning3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLFAX RD
24 April 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2018Arson/incendiarism16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRANGE CITY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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 2007Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$75,000Concrete silo blown down and two barns damaged.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$2,000Tool shed was damaged by winds. Several large limbs were blown down.
July 2015LightningHillsboro$1,000A lightning strike killed a bull and four cows.
December 2013FloodHillsboro$1,000Some minor flooding of area roadways was reported.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$1,000There was a tree down near Hillsboro.
June 2017Flash FloodHillsboro-County dispatch relayed numerous reports of flash flooding across the county. These included two homes in Flemingsburg on East Water Street having water in them with the road being shut down, as well as roads in Muses Mills, Tilton, and Hillsboro being closed as 2 to 4 inches of rain fell. The highest measured amount was in Sharkey at 3.59 inches.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-Trees were blown down on Ringos Mills Rd.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-Numerous trees were blown down in Hillsboro.
May 2007HailHillsboro-Nickel size hail was reported.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-One tree was down on Kentucky Highway 1013 South.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-Numerous trees blown down.
July 2000HailHillsboro-1 inch diameter hail reported near Hillsboro.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Sunset1.8 miles10
Farmville (historical)3.1 miles8
Grange City3.4 miles10
Locust4.0 miles10
Stringtown4.2 miles10
Poplar Plains4.7 miles10
Plummers Mill4.8 miles8
Bald Hill5.3 miles10

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 HillsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690601The 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 494271. 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.