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Iberia, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. It lies near Dug Hill. The Survey maps it on the Nolin Lake quadrangle.

Iberia within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

29 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Iberia between 1997 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
18 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2018Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL HOLLOW
8 April 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINEHURST BAY
7 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWASHBURN FIRE
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRE FIRE
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNOLIN ESTATES FIRE
4 April 1997Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iberia in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024HailIberia-Golf ball sized hail was observed in southeastern Grayson County.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindIberia-Trees were uprooted, a garage door was blown in, and outbuildings were damaged on Nolin Estates Road.
December 2007FloodIberia-Creeks were out of their banks in a few spots across the county.
April 2002HailIberia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Nolin Lake Estates1.0 miles15
Dug Hill1.7 miles15
Linwood Park2.0 miles15
Snap2.1 miles12
Linwood2.2 miles15
Johnson Crossroads2.6 miles12
Conoloway2.6 miles15
Wax2.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508304. 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.