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Jacktown, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dividing Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40009. It stands on Martin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bradfordsville NE quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Jacktown within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Jacktown between 1998 and 2011, burning about 444 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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 May 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2008Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacktown in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
February 2025Thunderstorm WindJacktown-A carport pole barn was rolled over by strong winds at a residence on Button Knob Road.
July 2018HailJacktown-Hail was reported near the junction of Highway 49 and 78.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindJacktown-Local law enforcement reported trees down over KY-1547.
November 2002Tornado (F0)Jacktown-A funnel cloud likely remained aloft for much of the duration of the storm, but spot F0 damage to trees was found on the ridge top along Peyton Ridge, at an elevation of about 1400 feet.
July 2018HailJacktown-no account filed
June 2005HailJacktown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Chilton1.7 miles8
Peytons Store2.7 miles8
Martin Creek (historical)2.8 miles8
Dogwood (historical)3.8 miles8
Pine Grove (historical)5.0 miles8
Ellisburg5.3 miles8
Scotts Chapel (historical)5.5 miles10
Snake Ridge (historical)5.6 miles8

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 JacktownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690712The 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 508329. 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.