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Kepler, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Smiths Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42171. The Survey maps it on the Meador quadrangle. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Kepler within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Kepler between 1999 and 2012, burning about 123 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
7 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Kepler: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Smith Grove No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kepler in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 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 2008Thunderstorm WindKepler-Several trees were reported down along Kentucky Highways 101 and 1297.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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 Forks1.5 miles9
Pondsville2.3 miles9
Hydro2.3 miles9
Martinsville3.5 miles9
Polkville3.7 miles13
Hays5.1 miles24
Claypool5.2 miles9
Oakland5.3 miles24

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 KeplerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690756The 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 508381. 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.