BlockPaynes Depot, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40511. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.
On record in Paynes Depot
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 6 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Asa Payne Houselisted 1979 · 0.3 miles away
- Halley Placelisted 1979 · 0.4 miles away
- Lindsay, James-Trotter, William, Houselisted 1979 · 0.4 miles away
- Lewis Nuckols Houselisted 1979 · 0.7 miles away
- Audubonlisted 1973 · 0.9 miles away
- Joseph Patterson Quarterslisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1906 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500
- 1908 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1986 USGS Lexington quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Paynes Depot in 2010, burning about 25 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CORN HOLE FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paynes Depot in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paynes Depot | $30,000 | There were at least five large trees down in southern Scott County. The area also reported some power outages. |
| July 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paynes Depot | $15,000 | The supercell storm that later dumped large hail across northern Lexington downed trees and partially tore a roof off of a home 4 miles east of Midway. |
| July 2021 | Lightning | Paynes Depot | $5,000 | A transformer was struck by lightning and caught on fire. Power lines were down across Lakeview Drive. Cost of damage is unknown. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Paynes Depot | - | The public reported US 62 between Cane Run and I-64 experienced high water, including flooded fields. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paynes Depot | - | A 54 knot measured wind gust at a private weather station. |
| December 2012 | Hail | Paynes Depot | - | Widespread pea to dime sized hail whitened the ground just south of Georgetown. Some of the larger hail stones were 1 inch in diameter. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Paynes Depot | - | The Scott County road crew noted a localized area of downed trees near the intersection of Cane Run and Ironworks roads. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zion Hill | 1.7 miles | 11 | |
| Peak | 2.4 miles | 12 | |
| Lancelot Estates | 2.9 miles | 12 | |
| Herdon | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Great Crossing | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Indian Hills | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Georgetown | 5.8 miles | 12 | |
| White Sulphur | 6.0 miles | 12 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122566242 | 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 500296. 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.