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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.

Pellville within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

11 since 1999

Regional 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
12 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACKSON FI
11 April 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHAFER CAMP
4 November 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryED BROWN RD.
26 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2008Thunderstorm WindPellville-Trees were reported down in Pellville.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindPellville-Trees down
September 2023HailPellville-no account filed
June 2008HailPellville-no account filed

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
Weberstown2.2 miles17
Floral2.4 miles17
Arrington Corner3.8 miles14
Roseville3.9 miles12
Goering4.3 miles17
Patesville5.4 miles14
Sanders5.5 miles11
Chambers6.1 miles17

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 PellvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987493The 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.