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Maxine, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Magnolia-Upton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42776. It stands on Tucker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hammonville quadrangle.

Maxine within Larue County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Maxine between 1997 and 2019, burning about 136 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWONDERLAND RD.
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDIE RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maxine in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2014Thunderstorm WindMaxine$30,000A new barn, with its doors open to its east, was destroyed when thunderstorm winds entered the structure.
July 2020Flash FloodMaxine-Water was flowing over Parkers Grove Road.
June 2006HailMaxine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
In The Bark of Wonderland (historical)2.3 miles11
Talley2.7 miles11
Keith (historical)2.9 miles11
Magnolia3.1 miles9
Tanner3.1 miles15
Mathers Mill5.4 miles15
Boundary Oak5.4 miles8
South Buffalo5.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508565. 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.