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Newbern, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Smithland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42045. It stands on Gum Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Calvert City quadrangle.

Newbern within Livingston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 23 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Newbern between 1999 and 2016, burning about 169 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking1
Natural1

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 September 2002Smoking30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2008Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 August 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALVERT SUB STATION
27 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryEVELYN RD
13 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCCORMICK CREEK
29 March 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOVER ROAD
25 March 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAULKNER LANE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Newbern: 2 past producers, 1 plant, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Chromium, Manganese, Iron, Clay. 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
(Facility) Calvert City SmelterChromium, ManganesePlant
Smithland QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tenn Forging Steel/ Calvert City KyIronPast Producer
Valley Divide Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newbern in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
May 2025HailNewbern$50,000A swath of large hail fell with a storm moving eastward in southern Livingston County. Hail estimated to golf ball size fell near the Gum Spring Branch on KY-453. Rednaur Rd had truck windows broken out and house windows broken from hail. Damage to siding occurred to a home on Newburn Rd and to the roof, siding, and windows of a home on Sanders Cemetery Rd. Baseball size hail was reported on Greenwood Rd.
April 2008Flash FloodNewbern$20,000Three feet of water surrounded a house in Salem. Water entered two other houses.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindNewbern$15,000A number of downed trees and power lines were reported throughout the county, mostly in the southern part between Smithland and Grand Rivers. Kentucky Highway 453 was restricted to one lane at the intersection of Highway 1889 due to several downed trees and power lines. The county rescue squad and area fire departments assisted with clearing trees from a number of roadways.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindNewbern$5,000Trees were down, including two that blocked roads. State Routes 70 and 453 were each blocked.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindNewbern$4,000Several tree tops were broken off south of Highway 453, just a couple miles north of the Tennessee River near the Marshall County border.
March 2025HailNewbern-Quarter size hail fell southeast of Smithland.

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Cooper Landing1.9 miles23
Stanley Landing2.3 miles23
Heater3.6 miles19
Iuka4.3 miles20
Lake City5.4 miles20
Smithland5.9 miles21
Vicksburg6.9 miles19
Moxley Landing6.9 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508697. 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.