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Petersville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Laurel-Petersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It stands on Dunaway Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stricklett quadrangle.

Petersville within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

32 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Petersville between 1999 and 2020, burning about 432 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 were 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
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
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
6 April 2015Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUNAWAY BRANCH
6 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHURMAN BR
4 April 2010Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2016Recreation and ceremony40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEECHY CREEK
18 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPAINT LICK
15 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 344

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Petersville in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 flood, 1 flash flood, 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
May 2010Flash FloodPetersville$1,000Streams were reported out of their banks due to flash flooding.
December 2019FloodPetersville-Kentucky Route 344 was closed due to high water in both lanes.
March 2013FloodPetersville-High water was reported on area roads due to heavy rainfall. These roads included State Route 344, State Route 989, and State Route 59.
May 2017HailPetersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Oak Ridge (historical)1.7 miles9
Oak Ridge (historic)2.1 miles8
Crum2.4 miles9
Upper Indian Creek (historical)3.5 miles9
Glen Springs4.6 miles13
Nashtown5.0 miles11
Burtonville5.7 miles8
Stricklett6.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514523. 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.