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Howe Valley, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Summit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42724. The Survey maps it on the Howe Valley quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Howe Valley within Hardin County

On record in Howe Valley

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

10 surveys from 17 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

19 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Howe Valley between 2002 and 2020, burning about 162 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOM DUVALL LANE
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAINT JOHN'S
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH GRANDVIEW CHURCH ROAD
11 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAUREL RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin 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
Vertrees2.5 miles18
Perryville3.6 miles17
Franklin Cross Roads4.1 miles17
Four Corners4.3 miles17
Stephensburg5.7 miles18
Old Stephensburg6.2 miles18
Hansbrough6.2 miles17
Saint John6.5 miles17

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 Howe ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690660The 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 494687. 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.