BlockPebble, Kentucky
6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Owingsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40360. It stands on Forge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sherburne quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 6 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.
- 1952 USGS Sherburne quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Pebble between 1999 and 2017, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 February 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WILLIAMS RD |
| 8 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 November 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 November 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WYOMING ROAD |
| 29 October 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 7.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WILLIAMS RD |
| 22 October 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pebble in 8 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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 2023 | Lightning | Pebble | 1 killed | A 39-year old male was struck and killed by lightning just south of Sherburne. |
| August 2019 | Flash Flood | Pebble | $1,000 | The county Emergency Manager reported water from a nearby creek rushing inside of a home in Pebble. This occurred as a rain gauge on East Fork Road, southwest of Pebble, recorded 7.23 inches of rainfall in a two hour period. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pebble | $1,000 | One tree down. |
| April 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pebble | $200 | Two large limbs down. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pebble | - | Bath county dispatch reported a tree blown down onto Oakley-Pebble Road. This is a long road, and a specific location of the damage report was not given. |
| October 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pebble | - | Trees were reported down along East Fork Road north of Owingsville. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pebble | - | Multiple trees were reported down on Oakley Pebble Road near the community of Pebble. |
| June 2011 | Hail | Pebble | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peeble (historical) | 0.0 miles | 6 | |
| Oakla | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| East Fork (historical) | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| South Sherburne (historical) | 2.6 miles | 6 | |
| White Oak | 4.5 miles | 9 | |
| Wyoming | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Pittsburgh (historical) | 4.9 miles | 9 | |
| Bethel | 6.1 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508789. 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.