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Jessietown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. It stands on Mussin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Spurlington quadrangle.

Jessietown within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

36 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Jessietown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 469 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1
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
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2018Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFINLEY RIDGE
2 April 1998Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2020Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST. MATTHEWS
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Jessietown: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ward & Montgomery QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jessietown in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2021: 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Tornado (EF2)Jessietown1 hurtThis tornado formed approximately 1.7 miles west southwest of Saloma near Chaney Pike Road and tracked northeast for approximately 6.5 miles before exiting Taylor County and into southern Marion County. The tornado in Marion County resulted in EF-1 to EF-2 damage to homes and trees along Finley Ridge Road, Nolley Wood Road, US 68, and New Calvary Road. Toward the end of the tornado track the tornado weakened and the damage became more sporadic. The tornado lifted near Bradfordsville Highway just 2.2 miles west of Bradfordsville.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindJessietown-State officials reported trees down near Highway 412 due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2016HailJessietown-Half dollar size hail fell near Jessietown.
April 2007HailJessietown-no account filed
April 1998HailJessietown-no account filed
May 1998Flash FloodJessietown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
New Market1.6 miles6
Ridge (historical)2.2 miles9
Lagoon (historical)2.5 miles6
Belltown3.8 miles6
Phillipsburg3.8 miles9
McElroy Pike (historical)3.9 miles6
Calvary4.1 miles6
Gilboa (historical)4.4 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122549348The 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 495253. 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.