BlockJunte, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Harrisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40076. It lies near Pea Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Glensboro quadrangle.
On record in Junte
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Charles Ware Houselisted 1988 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1923 USGS Waddy quadrangle1:48000
- 1925 USGS Mount Eden quadrangle1:48000
- 1927 USGS Mount Eden quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Glensboro quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Junte between 2002 and 2004, burning about 27 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Junte in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2013 | Flash Flood | Junte | $2,000 | Shelby County Road Department reported that quite a bit of vegetative debris was left on several roads in the morning from flash flooding that developed shortly after midnight. Two of these were Cap Ridge and Little Crooked Creek, both located around 4 miles north of Mount Eden. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junte | - | Site WADD measured an 83 mph wind gust. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junte | - | Trees were down on Back Creek Road. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junte | - | Tress, power lines, and a barn were blown down along Mt. Eden Rd. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Junte | - | A spotter reported that fire crews responded to a barn demolished in the 4400 block of Mt. Eden Rd. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harrisonville | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| Waddy | 4.0 miles | 13 | |
| Hemp Ridge | 4.8 miles | 13 | |
| Southville | 4.9 miles | 12 | |
| Graefenburg | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Peytona | 7.2 miles | 13 | |
| Hooper | 7.2 miles | 14 | |
| Clay Village | 7.7 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508365. 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.