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New Market, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40033. It stands on Moore Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lebanon West quadrangle.

New Market within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of New Market between 1998 and 2020, burning about 377 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 were 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 burning13
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
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
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2018Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFINLEY RIDGE
2 April 1998Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAGAN BRANCH
10 April 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2020Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST. MATTHEWS
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 New Market: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Ward & Montgomery QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Market in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Market$30,000no account filed
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNew Market$25,000Barn blown down in St. Joseph.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNew Market-Property damage and fallen trees were reported along East Calvary Road near US 68.
July 2015Flash FloodNew Market-The Marion County 911 call center reported high water flowing over Lovers Lane.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNew Market-A tree fell along State Highway 289 between Mill Dam and Ward's Branch Roads.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindNew Market-A tree was blown down across Highway 289 at New Market. Numerous large limbs were blown down.
May 1998Flash FloodNew Market-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Jessietown1.6 miles9
Belltown2.2 miles6
Lagoon (historical)2.2 miles6
Calvary2.7 miles6
McElroy Pike (historical)2.9 miles6
Ridge (historical)3.5 miles9
Miller Pike (historical)4.1 miles6
Phillipsburg4.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 499374. 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.