Jetson, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jetson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It lies near Gary Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle. It stands 630 feet above sea level.

Jetson within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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.

1914 USGS Little Muddy quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Riverside quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Jetson between 2001 and 2018, burning about 372 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 August 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BLADDER FI
12 April 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	REGION
12 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 April 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNSON CEMENTARY ROAD
9 March 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2001	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jetson in 1 storm report in 2003: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Hail	Jetson	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Centhro (historical)	0.7 miles	11
Whittinghill	0.8 miles	11
Horsemill	1.2 miles	14
Vineyard	2.3 miles	14
Love	2.4 miles	11
Temple View	2.7 miles	11
Greenwood (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Martins Store (historical)	3.3 miles	14

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 Jetson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622268	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 508342. 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.