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Kingswood, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Hardinsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40144. The Survey maps it on the Kingswood quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.

Kingswood within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Kingswood between 1998 and 2019, burning about 147 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 were 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/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFRED PHILLIPS FIRE
18 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINGWOOD
7 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingswood in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
May 2022HailKingswood-Ping pong-ball sized hail was observed south of Harned.
April 2015FloodKingswood-Department of Highway officials reported that Tuels Creek Rd was closed due to high water and excessive heavy rainfall.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindKingswood-Thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees.
May 1996HailKingswood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Westview1.3 miles13
Harned2.3 miles17
Locust Hill2.8 miles11
Se Ree2.9 miles13
Kirk3.7 miles13
Roff4.1 miles13
Mook4.3 miles11
Codyville4.6 miles17

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 KingswoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19462784The 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 495771. 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.