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Orangeburg, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41056. It stands on Stone Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Orangeburg quadrangle. It stands 774 feet above sea level.

Orangeburg within Mason County

On record in Orangeburg

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

8 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Orangeburg between 1999 and 2016, burning about 40 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 August 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
23 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMAXEY FLAT
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
21 February 2009Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 November 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason 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 Orangeburg: 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
Cabin Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orangeburg in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2011Flash FloodOrangeburg$15,000A road was washed out and an intersection was closed due to flash flooding.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindOrangeburg$10,000A barn sustained major damage. Numerous trees were also knocked down.
July 2015Flash FloodOrangeburg$8,000Flash flooding occurred on Stone Lick Branch along Kentucky State Route 1449. Rushing water destroyed a garage along the creek.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOrangeburg$3,000Several trees were blown down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindOrangeburg$3,000Trees were knocked down.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindOrangeburg$3,000Trees were downed along Orangeburg Road.
June 2012HailOrangeburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Rectorville2.3 miles12
Taylors Mill (historical)2.4 miles12
Plumville2.5 miles12
Somo3.5 miles12
Springdale4.0 miles12
Mount Gilead4.0 miles12
Marshall4.2 miles11
Lewisburg4.2 miles11

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 OrangeburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18385582The 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 499971. 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.