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Maplesville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Greenmount-Langnau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40741. The Survey maps it on the London quadrangle.

Maplesville within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

74 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Maplesville between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,460 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning32
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
5 September 2007Natural35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMCAT #2
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMCAT #1
9 April 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREADY MIX RD
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAPIERS CEM.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

11 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maplesville in 11 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
February 2021FloodMaplesville$15,000Flooding was ongoing across Sally's Branch Road. Local broadcast media posted a video on Facebook of a water rescue now occurring on this road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMaplesville$10,000There were trees down and a roof blown off of a barn on McWhorter road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMaplesville-Trees were reported to have been blown down along KY-80 near Bush Elementary School in eastern Laurel County according to pictures sent to the office by a HAM radio operator.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindMaplesville-County dispatch reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Maplesville School and Old Salem Road.
May 2025HailMaplesville-A picture shows multiple hailstones compared with a penny on the NE side of London, near the Maplesville community. The largest stones were at least double the size of the penny.
March 2021FloodMaplesville-Sally's Branch Road is flooded and not passable.
February 2021FloodMaplesville-Sally's Branch Road is flooded and not passable.
June 2021Flash FloodMaplesville-Laurel County Dispatch reported a water rescue and road closure due to flash flooding along Sally's Branch Road near London.
June 2021Flash FloodMaplesville-Laurel County Dispatch reported a water rescue due to flash flooding along Payne Trail near London.
May 2020FloodMaplesville-A citizen reported small stream flooding on Payne Trail east of London.
February 2019FloodMaplesville-Dispatch reported water over Sallys Branch Road east of London.

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Brock3.1 miles13
London3.3 miles15
Langnau3.8 miles13
Pittsburg4.1 miles15
Laurel River Neighborhood4.2 miles13
Sublimity City4.8 miles14
Crawford5.1 miles13
Lesbas5.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513778. 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.