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Jingo, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hartford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42347. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horton quadrangle.

Jingo within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Jingo between 1998 and 2012, burning about 146 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2012Natural14 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAGLE CLU
2 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2001Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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 Jingo: 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
Sulphur Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jingo in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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 2025Flash FloodJingo$10,000A vehicle was stranded on the 4000 block of Kentucky Route 69.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindJingo-The Ohio County KY Mesonet site recorded a 68 mph wind gust.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindJingo-A 52 knot gust was recorded at the Ohio County Kentucky Mesonet station.
October 2014HailJingo-A CoCoRahs observer reported ping pong sized hail that damaged vegetation.
September 2002Thunderstorm WindJingo-Trees were down across SR 1164.
October 2007HailJingo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Sunnydale2.7 miles13
Dukehurst2.8 miles13
Sulphur Springs3.1 miles13
Combs Ford3.4 miles13
Horton4.4 miles11
Dundee4.6 miles13
Rosine4.9 miles11
Taffy5.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508346. 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.