Pellville, Kentucky
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Patesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42348. The Survey maps it on the Pellville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1903 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1953 USGS Pellville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Pellville between 1999 and 2017, burning about 59 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 1999 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 June 2012 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | JACKSON FI |
| 11 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 February 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SHAFER CAMP |
| 4 November 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ED BROWN RD. |
| 26 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pellville in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pellville | - | Trees were reported down in Pellville. |
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pellville | - | Trees down |
| September 2023 | Hail | Pellville | - | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Hail | Pellville | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weberstown | 2.2 miles | 17 | |
| Floral | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Arrington Corner | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Roseville | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Goering | 4.3 miles | 17 | |
| Patesville | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Sanders | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Chambers | 6.1 miles | 17 |
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 Pellville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q19987493 | 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 500366. 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.






