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Hooktown, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Headquarters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41031. The Survey maps it on the Millersburg quadrangle. It stands 794 feet above sea level.

Hooktown within Nicholas County

On record in Hooktown

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Hooktown in 1999, burning about 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nicholas 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 Hooktown: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Caldwell VeinsBarium-Barite, Zinc, LeadPast ProducerBarite, Galena, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Nicholas County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hooktown in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 1 heavy rain, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Flash FloodHooktown1 killedA house was swept away due to flood waters along West Headquarters Road near Hooktown.
August 2014Heavy RainHooktown-The Nicholas County emergency manager relayed a report that 2 inches of rain fell within a one half hour period near Colville.

Every storm recorded in Nicholas 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
Headquarters2.0 miles6
Morning Glory3.2 miles6
Barterville4.7 miles5
Barefoot5.1 miles5
Hickory Ridge (historical)7.0 miles6
Carlisle7.2 miles6
Ellisville7.4 miles5
Myers10.5 miles7

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 HooktownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5898169The 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 508274. 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.