Hobbs, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Shepherdsville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40110. It lies near Jackson Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Shepherdsville quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Hobbs within Bullitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1949 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000
1998 USGS Shepherdsville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

42 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Hobbs between 1998 and 2019, burning about 182 acres in total. 1 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	19
Debris and open burning	12
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
27 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEATSVILLE
27 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	R J CORMAN FIRE
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
12 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 April 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 1999	Natural	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 April 2001	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt 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
Poplar Level	0.9 miles	12
Ridgetop	1.4 miles	11
Clermont	1.5 miles	12
Lotus	1.6 miles	11
Limestone Springs	2.3 miles	12
Brownington	2.6 miles	11
Cedar Grove	3.1 miles	12
Lick Skillet (historical)	3.9 miles	12

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 Hobbs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5874848	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 508259. 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.