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Perryville, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Radcliff census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42701. It lies near Blueball Hill. The Survey maps it on the Howe Valley quadrangle.

Perryville within Hardin County

On record in Perryville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 2000 and 2014, burning about 108 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySMALLWOOD RD.
22 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAINT JOHN'S
26 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJAMES DUVALL FIRE
19 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville in 4 storm reports in 2016: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
October 2016Thunderstorm WindPerryville$50,000An amateur radio operator reported several barns and wooden fences destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2016HailPerryville-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Blueball Hill.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindPerryville-An 8 inch diameter cedar tree fell down near Blueball Hill.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindPerryville-The public reported several trees knocked down by thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Four Corners2.5 miles17
Howe Valley3.6 miles17
Kraft4.2 miles17
Rineyville4.4 miles17
Franklin Cross Roads4.5 miles17
Saint John4.9 miles17
Vertrees5.1 miles18
Cecilia6.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508805. 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.