Hillsdale, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. It stands on Jakes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Drake quadrangle.

Hillsdale within Simpson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale between 1999 and 2012, burning about 39 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/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	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
9 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 November 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILL PAYNE
26 October 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 October 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Simpson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hillsdale: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Franklin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Simpson County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 2022	Flood	Hillsdale	1 killed	At approximately 7:55 PM CDT, Kentucky State Police received a call from a 41 year old male. He stated he was trying to drive over Saddler Ford Bridge, but his 2013 Ford pick-up was being swept off the bridge. The emergency manager later stated that the driver disregarded warning signs and barricades that were set up before the bridge warning drivers of the flowing water over the bridge. The man's body was found around a mile downstream the following day.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$50,000	Social media reported that a roof had been blown off a home on Blackjack Road near Whiteside Ford Road.
June 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Hillsdale	$10,000	Brief EF1 tornado touched down near I-65. The survey crew found a mixture of straight line winds and a small area of a tornado embedded within. The tornado hit the Salem Rd area hard with extensive tree damage. A wheat field had distinct circulations quite visible.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Numerous trees were down along Craft Road and Barnes School Road. Report came in to broadcast media from a viewer.
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Several trees were blown down.
April 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Dispatch reported large trees down.

Every storm recorded in Simpson 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
Paradise (historical)	2.0 miles	9
Temperance	2.8 miles	14
Black Jack	2.8 miles	9
Gold City	3.3 miles	14
Oak Ridge (historical)	3.9 miles	9
Salmons	4.8 miles	9
Oak Grove (historical)	4.8 miles	13
Stevenson (historical)	5.2 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508242. 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.