BlockMortonsville, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the South Woodford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40383. The Survey maps it on the Salvisa quadrangle.
On record in Mortonsville
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 within a mile 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Miller's House at Mortonsville Milllisted 1983 · 0.0 miles away
- Stone House on Tanner's Creeklisted 1983 · 0.6 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Salvisa quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Salvisa quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Mortonsville in 2012, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | OLD SAWMIL |
Storms near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mortonsville in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mortonsville | - | Multiple large tree limbs were reported down by the public. |
| April 2011 | Heavy Rain | Mortonsville | - | A CoCoRaHS spotter reported 3.03 inches of rain. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Mortonsville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinckard | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Nonesuch | 4.5 miles | 12 | |
| Milner | 5.0 miles | 11 | |
| Woodford Village | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Hunter Town (historical) | 5.3 miles | 11 | |
| Troy | 5.4 miles | 12 | |
| Jacksontown (historical) | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Versailles | 5.7 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 498647. 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.