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Howardstown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Haven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40051. It stands on Lunar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Howardstown quadrangle.

Howardstown within Nelson County

On record in Howardstown

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Howardstown between 1998 and 2017, burning about 103 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
21 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresAbraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic SiteKNOB CREEK
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHURST FIRE
13 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1998Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Howardstown: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Highway 84 RoadcutClayProspect
Rolling Fork RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Howardstown in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Flash FloodHowardstown-Water was flowing over Howardstown Road near Cane Run.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindHowardstown-State officials reported trees down in the area.
April 2018HailHowardstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Stiles2.3 miles9
Gethsemane5.7 miles9
New Haven5.9 miles9
New Hope6.1 miles9
Samuel Pottinger Settlement (historical)6.4 miles9
Blue Gap8.1 miles9
Clarktown (historical)8.5 miles8
Culvertown10.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508287. 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.