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Mintonville, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dunnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42516. It lies near Tarter Knob. The Survey maps it on the Mintonville quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Mintonville within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mintonville between 1998 and 2016, burning about 410 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
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
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2013Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMASSENGALE
2 April 2013Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELLIOT
2 April 2013Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFIRE TOWER
11 April 1999Natural12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Arson/incendiarism80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2000Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey 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 Mintonville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
American Concrete Stone Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mintonville in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
November 2002Thunderstorm WindMintonville$20,000The roof was blown off a barn.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindMintonville-Wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph were reported in Mintonville.
April 2009HailMintonville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Ferndale (historical)2.1 miles8
Ware3.1 miles8
Argyle3.4 miles8
Bethelridge4.8 miles8
Evona5.4 miles7
Windsor6.4 miles7
Athens6.5 miles7
Gilpin6.7 miles7

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 MintonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690961The 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 508616. 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.