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Patesville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Patesville census division. The Survey maps it on the Cloverport quadrangle.

Patesville within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Patesville between 1999 and 2016, burning about 178 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2013Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPALESVILLE
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2016Recreation and ceremony100 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTRUKEY NEST
19 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Patesville: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Cloverport RoadcutSilicaProspect
Indian Lake Sandstone BluffSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Patesville in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPatesville$5,000Several outbuildings were destroyed. Trees were uprooted.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindPatesville-Trees were reported down across Highway 1700 near Quisenberry Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPatesville-A tree was reported downed across State Highway 144 E in Patesville. A second tree was toppled along State Road 2181 Between Pellsville and Hawesville.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindPatesville-Several trees were reported down across the county. One tree fell across Hawesville-Easton road near Patesville.
March 2008Flash FloodPatesville-Goering Road, Middle Knobsville Road, and Indian Hill Road were all closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Scuffletown (historical)1.4 miles14
Arrington Corner1.7 miles14
Goering2.6 miles17
Sanders2.7 miles11
Dukes3.1 miles14
Victoria Crossroads3.2 miles11
Weberstown3.3 miles17
Roseville4.9 miles12

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 PatesvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122592586The 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 508779. 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.