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Nolin, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sonora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42776. It stands on Cox Run. The Survey maps it on the Sonora quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Nolin within Hardin County

On record in Nolin

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Nolin between 2004 and 2011, burning about 508 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/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 2010Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 84
28 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance94 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2010Smoking7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAMISH ROAD
20 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenance117 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nolin in 2 storm reports in 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindNolin1 hurt, $20,000A truck with a male driver was blown off the road of the 2300 block of Sonora Hardin Springs Road and into a barn. The driver was taken to Hardin Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindNolin$50,000Amateur radio operators reported that a 2 story building was leveled with debris scattered into the road.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Sonora2.6 miles14
Glendale2.8 miles14
Glendale Junction2.9 miles15
Star Mills4.9 miles14
Harcourt5.8 miles18
Flint Hill6.4 miles12
Upton6.7 miles12
Gaithers6.7 miles17

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 NolinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691053The 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 499509. 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.