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Perryville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Munfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42765. It lies near Town Knob. The Survey maps it on the Munfordville quadrangle.

Perryville within Hart 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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

15 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Perryville between 2004 and 2020, burning about 50 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 burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryYODER FIRE
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCCUBBINS FIRE
18 April 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHESTNUT GROVE CEM.
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Perryville: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory), 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
Geralds Stone Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bowles Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect
Childress Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perryville in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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
February 2019Flash FloodPerryville-Water was rushing over Lawler Bend Road. There was another road closed on KY 1140.

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Munfordville1.0 miles11
Leitchfield Crossing1.4 miles11
Woodsonville1.6 miles11
Mount Beulah2.4 miles11
Rowletts3.1 miles12
Kessinger3.5 miles11
Logsdon Valley3.6 miles11
Hinesdale4.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508804. 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.