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Judson, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40444. It stands on Jack Turner Branch. The Survey maps it on the Buckeye quadrangle.

Judson within Garrard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Judson between 2014 and 2016, burning about 35 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony2

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
21 March 2014Recreation and ceremony33 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILDLIFE LN
6 October 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBACK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Garrard 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 Judson: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
John Burdette DepositFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, Zinc, Barium-BariteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Garrard County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Judson in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 2 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindJudson$15,000A large oak tree fell across two cars.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindJudson-The Garrard County emergency manager reported several trees down in the northern part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Garrard 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
Three Forks0.4 miles10
Guy (historical)2.5 miles10
Bourne2.8 miles10
Mount Hebron (historical)2.9 miles10
McCreary3.0 miles10
Stone3.1 miles10
Teatersville3.3 miles10
Marksbury3.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508362. 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.