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Millerstown, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. It stands on Sinking Fork. The Survey maps it on the Millerstown quadrangle.

Millerstown within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

27 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Millerstown between 1997 and 2019, burning about 514 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 1999Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONE OAK ROAD
4 April 1997Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOWNS SCHOOL ROAD
14 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2014Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPLEASANT HILL CHURCH
10 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined170 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUZZARD RIDGE FIRE
31 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILLERSTOWN ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millerstown in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2009: 2 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
March 2009HailMillerstown-no account filed
April 2002HailMillerstown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Lone Oak1.8 miles14
Royal2.4 miles14
Spike3.2 miles14
Lacon3.7 miles14
Wheelers Mill3.8 miles14
Horntown4.6 miles12
Hilltop4.6 miles14
Broad Ford4.7 miles14

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 MillerstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987105The 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 498366. 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.