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Minorsville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1939 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stamping Ground census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40379. The Survey maps it on the Stamping Ground quadrangle.

Minorsville within Scott 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Minorsville between 1999 and 2010, burning about 54 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 March 2009Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 October 2010Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPLITTER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Scott County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Minorsville: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Strontium. 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
Clark MineLead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, StrontiumPast Producer1901

Every working recorded in Scott County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minorsville in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindMinorsville-Trees were down across the roadway.
December 2021Flash FloodMinorsville-Several roads were closed due to flooding.
June 2021Flash FloodMinorsville-Pictures showed water from Oakland Branch Creek flowing over Sharp Road, northwest of Stamping Ground, Kentucky.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMinorsville-State officials reported trees down at Highway 227 and Suterville Road.
December 2006Thunderstorm WindMinorsville-A large tree was downed across State Highway 227 near Minorsville.

Every storm recorded in Scott 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
Longlick2.6 miles9
Suterville2.7 miles9
Skinnersburg3.6 miles9
Stamping Ground4.1 miles9
Biddle5.3 miles10
Josephine5.6 miles9
Sand Lick6.0 miles12
Watkinsville6.1 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122552964The 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 498423. 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.