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Millville, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Versailles census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40601. It stands on North Fork Glenns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort East quadrangle. It stands 571 feet above sea level.

Millville within Woodford County

On record in Millville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Millville between 2010 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning1
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
3 July 2019Natural3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJIM BEAM
13 November 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVERS LEAP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Woodford County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Millville: 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Branch Junction ClayClayProspect
Queen City Pit No. 2Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Franklin County MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Glenns CreekStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Millville in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 8 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
July 2013Flash FloodMillville$5,000An elderly couple were evacuated from their home due to rapidly rising water. Several roads were briefly closed in the Millville area.
February 2024Thunderstorm WindMillville-Several power poles were down on McCracken Pike.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMillville-Trees were down on Hippe-Agee Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMillville-Trees were down on Grassy Springs Road, between US 60 and KY 1659.
August 2018Thunderstorm WindMillville-There was a tree reported down in Millville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMillville-An official with the Woodford County department of highways reported several trees down in the northern part of the county along with trees across Shore Acres Road. A few tree limbs were also reported down across the southern part of the county.
December 2015Thunderstorm WindMillville-Local law enforcement officials from Woodford County reported to the NWS that several trees were down throughout Woodford County because of severe thunderstorm winds.
June 1995Thunderstorm WindMillville-Trees down blocked Big Sink Pike and William Lane. Report from Woodford County Dispatch.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindMillville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Woodford 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
McKees Crossroads2.7 miles11
Duckers2.8 miles17
Clifton3.5 miles11
Sodom (historical)6.6 miles12
Nugent Crossroads6.6 miles11
Wallace7.0 miles11
Bonita7.0 miles11
Milner7.2 miles11

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 MillvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6860108The 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 498390. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.