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Monitor, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Bedford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40006. It lies near Kings Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Madison East quadrangle. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Monitor within Trimble County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Monitor between 2000 and 2014, burning about 21 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
1 April 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony18 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trimble 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 Monitor: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Milton PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Storms near this place

11 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monitor in 11 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 7 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2012Thunderstorm WindMonitor$1,000A spotter reported that a portion of a roof was removed from a garage along Culls Ridge Road near Bedford.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindMonitor-A 40 by 60 foot barn was destroyed by wind gusts.
September 2022Flash FloodMonitor-Connector Road was closed due to water rises along Hardy Creek and the Little Kentucky River. Five other roads experienced minor flooding across Trimble County.
June 2021Flash FloodMonitor-US 42, near Ruby Drive, flooded and had debris in the roadway.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMonitor-Ten to fifteen trees were reported down along 42 between Connector Road and Highway 36.
February 2018FloodMonitor-Kentucky Highway 2871 flooded due to high water.
July 2015Flash FloodMonitor-A broadcast media meteorologist relayed a report that Connector Road in Trimble County was flooded and impassable because of high water.
April 2015Flash FloodMonitor-Emergency manager reported that KY 2871 / Connector Rd at the Little Kentucky River was closed due to high water. Between 4 and 5 inches of rain fell across the county.
December 2013Flash FloodMonitor-High Water briefly closed Connector Road in Bedford.
October 2009Flash FloodMonitor-Five feet of water flowed over the pavement at US 42 and Connector Road, making it impassable.
January 2007Flash FloodMonitor-Heavy rains caused water to accumulate to a depth of around two feet on sections of State Highway 1335. The highway was was closed due to the water.

Every storm recorded in Trimble 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
South Union Grove (historical)1.5 miles12
South Mount Tabor (historical)1.7 miles11
Mount Tabor (historical)1.8 miles11
North Mount Tabor (historical)2.3 miles11
Callis Grove3.2 miles11
Bedford5.1 miles8
Carmon5.8 miles8
Poplar Ridge (historical)6.0 miles8

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 MonitorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6900456The 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 508625. 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.