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.
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
Hillsboro Covered Bridgelisted 1976
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 10 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.
- 1951 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
28 since 1999Regional 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 burning | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ISHMAEL RD |
| 3 April 2013 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | COLFAX RD |
| 24 April 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 April 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GRANGE CITY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
12 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $75,000 | Concrete silo blown down and two barns damaged. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $2,000 | Tool shed was damaged by winds. Several large limbs were blown down. |
| July 2015 | Lightning | Hillsboro | $1,000 | A lightning strike killed a bull and four cows. |
| December 2013 | Flood | Hillsboro | $1,000 | Some minor flooding of area roadways was reported. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | $1,000 | There was a tree down near Hillsboro. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Hillsboro | - | 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 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | - | Trees were blown down on Ringos Mills Rd. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | - | Numerous trees were blown down in Hillsboro. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | Nickel size hail was reported. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | - | One tree was down on Kentucky Highway 1013 South. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hillsboro | - | Numerous trees blown down. |
| July 2000 | Hail | Hillsboro | - | 1 inch diameter hail reported near Hillsboro. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunset | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Farmville (historical) | 3.1 miles | 8 | |
| Grange City | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Locust | 4.0 miles | 10 | |
| Stringtown | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Poplar Plains | 4.7 miles | 10 | |
| Plummers Mill | 4.8 miles | 8 | |
| Bald Hill | 5.3 miles | 10 |
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 Hillsboro | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690601 | 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 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.



