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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.

Hunnewell within Greenup County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

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.

Hunnewell Iron Furnace, Junction of State Routes 2 & 1773, Hunnewell, Greenup County, KY
Hunnewell Iron Furnace, Junction of State Routes 2 & 1773, Hunnewell, Greenup County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

152 since 1997

Regional 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/undetermined52
Debris and open burning44
Arson/incendiarism32
Recreation and ceremony20
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLYNKS
13 September 2002Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buena Vista Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2019FloodHunnewell1 killed, $25,000Multiple 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 2011FloodHunnewell$15,000Minor 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 2014Thunderstorm WindHunnewell$2,000Trees were blown down around an industrial park.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHunnewell$500A tree fell down on the 12000 block of Route 1 near James Callihan Road.
April 2010HailHunnewell-no account filed
April 2008FloodHunnewell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Oldtown3.4 miles14
Hopewell3.5 miles14
Naples4.3 miles14
Samaria5.3 miles14
Argillite5.3 miles14
Danleyton6.7 miles14
Warnock8.9 miles14
Bellefonte9.9 miles22

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 HunnewellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986650The 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.