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Pendleton, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Eminence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40055. It stands on Bartlett Fork. The Survey maps it on the Smithfield quadrangle. It stands 853 feet above sea level.

Pendleton within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Pendleton between 2000 and 2001, burning about 2 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 March 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pendleton in 13 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
March 2025HailPendleton-Penny sized hail was observed near Pendleton.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPendleton-Trees were downed by strong winds in Pendleton.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindPendleton-Trees were reported down near Pendleton.
August 2017Flash FloodPendleton-High water and flooding were reported over Highway 153.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindPendleton-An off-duty NWS employee reported power poles snapped and power lines down near Interstate 71 from severe winds. There were also reports of tree damage along Radcliffe Road.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPendleton-Trained spotters estimated winds at 60 mph.
March 2008Flash FloodPendleton-Numerous low water bridge crossings were closed due to high water.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPendleton-Trees were downed.
April 1999HailPendleton-Golfball size hail reported in western Henry county
April 2017HailPendleton-no account filed
July 2010HailPendleton-no account filed
June 1998HailPendleton-no account filed
July 1996HailPendleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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
Sligo1.9 miles13
Sulphur2.7 miles13
Tarascon3.5 miles13
Jericho4.0 miles13
Smithfield5.8 miles13
Campbellsburg6.8 miles7
New Castle7.4 miles10
Eminence9.1 miles10

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 PendletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30621956The 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 508798. 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.