Hunnewell, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wurtland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41121. It stands on Turkey Lick. The Survey maps it on the Argillite quadrangle.
On record in Hunnewell
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Hunnewell Iron Furnace, Junction of State Routes 2 & 1773, Hunnewellfederal building survey, 8 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
- 1953 USGS Argillite quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Argillite quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
152 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Hunnewell between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,279 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 were 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 | 52 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LYNKS |
| 13 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 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 |
| 17 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hunnewell: 1 prospect. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista Clay Bed | Clay | Prospect |
Storms near this place
6 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunnewell in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2019 | Flood | Hunnewell | 1 killed, $25,000 | Multiple roads were closed due to flooding, including State Route 1 and 784 due to flooding along Lost Creek and Three Prong Branch. A vehicle drove into the high water along State Route 1, but the driver was able to self rescue and was not injured. Route 503 was closed due to high water on Culp Creek. Tygarts Creek also flooded upstream of Load, closing sections of State Routes 2 and 7. A 51 year old man tried to drive across the flooded section of Route 2, near the Wagener's General Store, on the morning of the 17th. Witnesses saw him get out of his truck as it was being swept away, but he was unable to swim to safety and drowned. |
| April 2011 | Flood | Hunnewell | $15,000 | Minor small stream flooding in the morning lead to minor river flooding along the Little Sandy river during the afternoon and evening. No homes were flooded. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunnewell | $2,000 | Trees were blown down around an industrial park. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hunnewell | $500 | A tree fell down on the 12000 block of Route 1 near James Callihan Road. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Hunnewell | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Flood | Hunnewell | - | 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 Hunnewell | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19986650 | 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 508296. 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.






