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Kessinger, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Munfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42765. It lies near Cove Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Munfordville quadrangle.

Kessinger within Hart 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

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Kessinger between 1998 and 2020, burning about 78 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 ceremony8
Debris and open burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
17 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCCUBBINS FIRE
18 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHESTNUT GROVE CEM.
31 March 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROCKY HILL RD.
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKY HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kessinger: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Childress Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Murray Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kessinger in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 1 hail, 1 flood, 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 2018Thunderstorm WindKessinger-Trees were reported down at 7925 Cub Run Highway. Other trees were reported down around the county.
April 2011FloodKessinger-A spotter reported about 6 to 7 inches of water on roads in Western Hart county due to runoff.
June 2005HailKessinger-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Mount Beulah1.2 miles11
Leitchfield Crossing2.5 miles11
Logsdon Valley2.7 miles11
Forestville3.3 miles11
Winesap3.3 miles13
Perryville3.5 miles11
Macon3.6 miles13
Munfordville4.3 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122561656The 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 508384. 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.