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Mooleyville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Irvington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40157. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle.

Mooleyville within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Mooleyville between 1998 and 2010, burning about 106 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
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
7 May 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresHoosier National ForestCOMMER
6 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresHoosier National ForestCORNFIELD
7 March 2000Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresHoosier National ForestCONNER CEMETARY
25 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresHoosier National ForestRACHEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Mooleyville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Derby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Derby Slope MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Derby Underground MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mooleyville in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009HailMooleyville-Emergency manager also estimated wind gusts around 60 mph.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindMooleyville-Many trees were downed in the vicinity of the Yellowbank Wildlife Management Area due to straight line winds. The damage area was roughly one quarter mile wide and a mile long. All the trees fell in the same general direction, east southeastward. The time of occurrence was estimated from radar data.
June 2009HailMooleyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Manning Crossing2.0 miles17
Chenaultt2.9 miles16
Ammons5.1 miles17
Frymire5.5 miles17
Union Star5.7 miles17
Raymond7.7 miles15
Sample8.1 miles17
Stephensport8.2 miles14

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 Q122552819The 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 498523. 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.