BlockMoseleyville, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42301. It lies near Oglesby Hill. The Survey maps it on the Panther quadrangle. 470 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 394 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 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.
- 1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
9 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Moseleyville between 2001 and 2009, burning about 33 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 10 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 February 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 October 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moseleyville in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Flash Flood | Moseleyville | 1 killed, $20,000 | A series of thunderstorms produced rainfall rates estimated by radar up to three inches in two hours. A car was swept off Highway 140 West by rapidly flowing floodwater. The vehicle was found about two hours later, submerged in a deep ditch with rapidly flowing water. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Just prior to the fatality, the fire department had assisted another vehicle stranded in floodwaters in the same vicinity. In other parts of Daviess County, sections of U.S. Highway 431 and Kentucky Highway 81 were closed due to high water. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moseleyville | $70,000 | Pockets of wind damage occurred in western Daviess County. Two garages collapsed west of Highway 81, a few miles north-northwest of Moseleyville. In and near the small community of Rome, there was considerable wind damage. A pole barn was blown down. A semi was blown off the road on Highway 81. A power line was down. A large pine tree and a weeping willow tree were blown down. A wind gust to 61 mph was measured at the Owensboro airport before the power went out to the system. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moseleyville | $20,000 | Around 30 trees were blown down across southern Daviess County. A few of the trees fell on homes or across roads. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moseleyville | $2,000 | A tree was down across a secondary road off Highway 815. Approximately 600 utility customers were without power. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Moseleyville | - | Hail up to the size of quarters occurred on Highway 81 near Moseleyville. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Moseleyville | - | A couple of trees were blown down in the Moseleyville and West Louisville area. |
| August 2022 | Hail | Moseleyville | - | no account filed |
| March 1997 | Flash Flood | Moseleyville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Henry | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Snyder | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Handyville | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Panther | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Tuck | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Crow (historical) | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Pettit | 3.7 miles | 15 | |
| Sutherland | 3.9 miles | 17 |
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 Moseleyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30622386 | The 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 498659. 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.