BlockHinkleville, Kentucky
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the La Center census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42056. It stands on Humphrey Branch. The Survey maps it on the La Center quadrangle. It stands 407 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 16 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.
- 1928 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
- 1932 USGS La Center quadrangle1:62500
- 1949 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS La Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1975 USGS La Center quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Paducah quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
8 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Hinkleville between 1998 and 2011, burning about 21 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 February 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TURNER LANDING RD. |
| 17 November 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 October 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 October 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinkleville in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hinkleville | $3,000 | Trees were downed along Turner Landing Rd near U.S. 60 as training thunderstorms moved southeastward through Ballard County. |
| September 2024 | Flood | Hinkleville | - | Several inches of water covered Ceredo Rd in Ballard County. Hourly rainfall rates were around half to three quarters inch an hour the preceding two hours. At this point in the day, 2-3 inches of rain had fallen. Additional rain later in the day fell at low enough rates to keep flooding issues from worsening. |
| January 2020 | Flash Flood | Hinkleville | - | Highway 358 was flooded between Kevil and La Center. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Hinkleville | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Hinkleville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5767254 | 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 508250. 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.