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Mitchellsburg, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Perryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40464. It lies near Pittman Hill. The Survey maps it on the Parksville quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Mitchellsburg within Boyle County

On record in Mitchellsburg

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 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Mitchellsburg between 1999 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREYNOLDS HOLLOW
14 March 2019Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELK CAVE
16 February 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 November 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 October 2000Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 January 2013Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCRUBGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchellsburg in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindMitchellsburg-There were several trees down near the intersection of Mitchellsburg Road and Harberson Lane. There were also trees down on Bakers Lane, around the 9700 and 10300 block of Lebanon Road, and on Scrubgrass Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindMitchellsburg-Dispatch reported a tree down along Mitchellsburg Road.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindMitchellsburg-A tree was down on Mitchellsburg Knob Road.
May 2018Flash FloodMitchellsburg-Mitchellburg Road was closed due to high water.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindMitchellsburg-State officials reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2002HailMitchellsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Brumfield1.7 miles10
Parksville3.1 miles10
Perryville3.4 miles11
Forkland3.7 miles10
Wilsonville3.9 miles10
Craintown4.0 miles6
Aliceton4.3 miles6
Sleettown (historical)5.0 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 MitchellsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690967The 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 498457. 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.