BlockHuntsville, Kentucky
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rochester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It lies near Reed Hill. The Survey maps it on the Rochester quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1911 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:48000
- 1914 USGS Dunmor quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Rochester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
24 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Huntsville between 2000 and 2017, burning about 205 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.2 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DUNMORE CR |
| 25 March 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huntsville in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Huntsville | 1 hurt, $250,000 | An EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 105 mph first touched down just west of Huntsville, located in Butler County. Damage was first surveyed on Blaine Road where several trees were uprooted. While moving across Huntsville along Huntsville-Quality road, it damaged a few homes and uprooted additional trees. Along Silver City-Huntsville road, additional homes and outbuildings were damaged. A man was injured within a double wide mobile home when its roof and a wall were lifted from the structure. This injury occurred just west of the intersection of Panther Creek and Silver City-Huntsville Road. Finally, farther east along Muddy Creek Road, the tornado damaged several additional homes and trees before lifting 4 mile east of Huntsville. |
| May 2024 | Tornado (EF1) | Huntsville | - | This tornado is a continuation from Muhlenberg County, where the tornado initially developed before moving east southeastward into Butler and ultimately Warren County before lifting. In total, this EF1 tornado was on the ground for over 40 miles and 50 minutes across three counties. Please see the Storm Data submission from the National Weather Service office in Paducah for more information about the tornado as it passed through Muhlenberg County.||It was determined that a long-track EF1 tornado crossed the|Muhlenberg/Butler county line near Mud River Mine Road, and |then quickly crossed over Penrod Road and Arnold Ridge Road where it was at |EF1 strength. Numerous hardwoods were snapped and uprooted along this road. ||The tornado traveled eastward across Huntsville Quality road at |EF0 strength, continuing to uproot and break off large limbs of |hardwoods. As the tornado traveled eastward toward the |intersection of Coal Road and Southhill Union Road some tree |damage was noted along with the roof blown out of a medium sized |outbuilding. This damage was noted as low-end EF1. The path |continued more southeastward toward the intersection of Southhill |Union Road and Givens Road where some more intense clustering of |snapped, uprooted, and snarled hardwoods was noted. Luckily, no |trees fell on homes in this area. ||The southeastward path continued across Muddy Creek, before |taking a brief eastward jog along Sandy Creek Road. From here, |more intensity was noted as the southeastward track resumed and |the tornado headed toward Kentucky Route 79, Russellville Road. Particularly, more intense damage was noted at the intersection of Russellville Road and Richland Church |Road and points eastward where a steeple was knocked off a church,|and much more intense tree damage occurred to a grove of |hardwoods. Damage just to the south of this intersection on Dimple|Road was determined to be straight-line inflow into the parent |circulation. Damage along Richland Church Road was noted at 90 to 100|mph as numerous hardwoods were snapped, uprooted, and snarled. |Some cars were damaged with trees falling on them, as well as some|minor structural damage to homes and outbuildings. ||The path continued toward Sugar Grove Road, U.S. Route 231, and Interstate 165 where trees continued to be damaged by mostly EF0 winds. The tornado then crossed into northwestern Warren County just south of U.S. Route 231. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hope (historical) | 1.3 miles | 11 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| McPhersons (historical) | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Silver City | 3.2 miles | 11 | |
| Rochester | 3.4 miles | 11 | |
| Mount Zion (historical) | 3.7 miles | 11 | |
| South Hill | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Harper Crossroads | 5.0 miles | 11 |
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 Huntsville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q123382667 | 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 507311. 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.
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.