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Parksville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Perryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40422. It stands on Parksville Knob. The Survey maps it on the Parksville quadrangle. It stands 1,083 feet above sea level.

Parksville within Boyle County

On record in Parksville

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Parksville between 1998 and 2019, burning about 56 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREYNOLDS HOLLOW
29 November 1998Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 November 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 January 2013Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySCRUBGRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parksville in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindParksville-Trees were reported down on Tank Pond Road.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindParksville-Emergency management reported a few trees down along Cross Pike near Parksville.
April 2009HailParksville-A spotter reported golf ball sized hail near Parksville.
July 2007HailParksville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Wilsonville0.8 miles10
Alum Springs2.7 miles11
Mitchellsburg3.1 miles10
Needmore3.8 miles11
Atoka3.9 miles14
Davis Hill4.6 miles14
Perryville4.8 miles11
Brumfield4.8 miles10

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 ParksvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7138725The 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 500206. 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.