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Hyattsville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40444. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle. It stands 1,040 feet above sea level.

Hyattsville within Garrard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Hyattsville between 1997 and 2009, burning about 22 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
25 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garrard 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 Hyattsville: 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
Harmony Church Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this place

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hyattsville in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHyattsville-A tree was blown down over Kirksville Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindHyattsville-Trees were blown down across Crab Orchard Road near Gilberts Creek Baptist Church.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHyattsville-A tree was blown down across Gilberts Creek Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHyattsville-A tree fell down along 1295.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHyattsville-A tree was down in the 1100 block of Kirksville Road.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindHyattsville-Trees down
March 2012HailHyattsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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
Point Leavell1.6 miles14
Lancaster3.1 miles12
Hackley3.3 miles15
New Union (historical)3.6 miles14
Guy (historical)3.8 miles10
Hamack (historical)4.5 miles14
McCreary4.6 miles10
Manse4.6 miles14

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 HyattsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690677The 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 508302. 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.