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Penile, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Pond Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40272. It stands on Bearcamp Run. The Survey maps it on the Valley Station quadrangle.

Penile within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Penile between 1999 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRDALE HIGH FIRE
5 April 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2011Natural11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEARCAMP RD. FIRE
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Penile: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Coral RidgeClayProducer
Okolona QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Penile in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindPenile-State officials reported trees down on Bearcamp Road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindPenile-Several trees were blown down on the south side of Louisville west of Interstate 65.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Prairie Village1.7 miles20
Waverly Hills2.2 miles20
Fairdale2.4 miles20
Newtown (historical)2.7 miles18
Auburndale2.9 miles18
Valley3.0 miles20
South Park3.0 miles17
Johnsontown3.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508800. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.