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Linwood, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hammonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42765. It lies near Grindstone Knob. The Survey maps it on the Canmer quadrangle.

Linwood within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

15 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Linwood between 2004 and 2011, burning about 96 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony4

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
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony31 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linwood in 8 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994HailLinwood$50Large limbs were blown out of trees in Taylorsville and large hail fell at Linwood.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindLinwood-Trees were blown down, blocking Round Bottom Road and Roy Cann Road.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A tree blew down in Linwood.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLinwood-Local emergency management reported several trees down across northern Hart County. Specifically, one fell across State Highway 566 just west of Eve. Another tree fell in Eve.
August 2006Flash FloodLinwood-Water covered Power Mills Road, or State Highway 569.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A number of trees were downed in the area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindLinwood-A number of trees were downed.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindLinwood-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
Old Linwood (historical)0.5 miles12
Rio1.5 miles12
Powder Mill2.5 miles8
Pike View2.8 miles11
Glen Lily2.8 miles12
Jonesville3.4 miles11
Canmer3.4 miles12
Hinesdale3.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508468. 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.