BlockLocust Grove, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Goforth-Locust Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41040. The Survey maps it on the Goforth quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1930 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:48000
- 1936 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Goforth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Locust Grove between 1998 and 2014, burning about 51 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 | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| 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 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ANTROBUS RD |
| 24 January 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Locust Grove in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Tornado (EF1) | Locust Grove | $35,000 | The tornado initially touched down 3.5 miles east of the Mt. Zion area, on the western fringe of Williamstown Lake, along Peaceful Hollow Road at 21:47 EST.||The tornado then moved into Pendleton County at 21:50 EST, with the first evidence of tornadic damage in Pendleton County occurring along Hogg Ridge Road. The tornado moved east-southeast, producing damage along its path that impacted West Highway 22, Morgan 4 Oaks Road, Liberty Ridge Road, U.S. 27, and McKinneysburg Road. Damage included the destruction of several barns as well as numerous trees and power poles being snapped or knocked down. The end of the damage occurred along Milford Road, where debris from a destroyed barn was thrown into an adjacent field. Based on this|damage, this tornado produced winds of around 100 mph, and was rated an EF-1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. |
| March 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Locust Grove | $2,000 | A couple of trees were downed. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Locust Grove | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doughton | 0.7 miles | 10 | |
| Ezra (historical) | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Goforth | 2.8 miles | 10 | |
| Knoxville | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Callensville (historical) | 4.6 miles | 9 | |
| Marcus | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Morgan | 5.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hayes | 6.5 miles | 10 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508487. 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.