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Parkwood, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Louisville South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40214. It lies near Red Stone Hill. The Survey maps it on the Louisville West quadrangle.

Parkwood within Jefferson County

On record in Parkwood

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Parkwood between 2011 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2

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
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRDALE HIGH FIRE
10 April 2011Natural11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEARCAMP RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkwood in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 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
March 2025HailParkwood-Ping pong ball sized hail was reported near Iroquois Park.
June 2023HailParkwood-Quarter sized hail was observed just west of Auburndale.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindParkwood-Power lines were reported down on Palatka Road near Manslick Road in the Iroquois Park area.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Auburndale1.7 miles18
Hunters Trace1.8 miles18
Kenwood1.8 miles18
Hazelwood1.9 miles18
Southern Heights2.4 miles18
Jacobs Addition2.5 miles18
Beechmont2.7 miles18
Newtown (historical)3.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 500210. 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.