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Milltown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gradyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gradyville quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Milltown within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Milltown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 324 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHARMON ROAD
6 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 61N FIRE
8 March 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRAMLETT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Milltown in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 3 hail, 3 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMilltown$50,000Thunderstorm winds blew a tree on to a home in the Milltown area, causing roof damage. High winds tore the roof off a mobile home on Sanders Ridge Road. Thunderstorm winds also downed numerous trees and power lines.
February 2019Flash FloodMilltown-Road were affected by flooding.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Local law enforcement reported trees down on Kentucky Highway 61.
April 2011HailMilltown-Quarter sized hail was reported in Milltown, just west of Columbia. Multiple trees were also down and power outages were reported in Columbia.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMilltown-Power lines were blown down.
May 1995HailMilltown-Dime-size hail reported.
August 2002HailMilltown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Portland2.1 miles9
Hatcher2.2 miles10
Taters Chapel (historical)3.0 miles9
Bliss3.5 miles9
Pelham Branch (historical)3.6 miles9
Pickett3.6 miles9
Gradyville4.1 miles9
South Columbia (historical)4.9 miles9

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 MilltownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6860069The 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 508609. 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.