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.
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
- Bower Houselisted 1999
- J.J. Moore Houselisted 1997
- Stone Bridge at Chaplin Creeklisted 1998
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1905 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Parksville quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1998Regional 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 ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | REYNOLDS HOLLOW |
| 29 November 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 November 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 January 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SCRUBGRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parksville | - | Trees were reported down on Tank Pond Road. |
| January 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parksville | - | Emergency management reported a few trees down along Cross Pike near Parksville. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Parksville | - | A spotter reported golf ball sized hail near Parksville. |
| July 2007 | Hail | Parksville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilsonville | 0.8 miles | 10 | |
| Alum Springs | 2.7 miles | 11 | |
| Mitchellsburg | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Needmore | 3.8 miles | 11 | |
| Atoka | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Davis Hill | 4.6 miles | 14 | |
| Perryville | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Brumfield | 4.8 miles | 10 |
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 Parksville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7138725 | The 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.





