BlockPettit, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42303. It stands on Rhodes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Panther quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Panther quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Pettit between 2001 and 2009, burning about 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 June 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 March 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 February 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pettit in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2016 | Tornado (EF0) | Pettit | $100,000 | This weak tornado touched down on the west side of U.S. Highway 431 near Panther Creek. Dozens of trees or large tree limbs were broken. There was partial shingle loss and other minor damage to several homes. One home had the front porch blown off. A barn had doors blown off. One vehicle was badly damaged. A stand-alone carport was blown about one-tenth of a mile. Several fences were blown over. The damage path ended near the southeast city limits of Owensboro along U.S. Highway 60, near the intersection with U.S. Highway 231. Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph. |
| February 2025 | Flash Flood | Pettit | - | Nearly two dozen roads were closed due to flash flooding as of 4 PM. The flash flooding intensified in the early evening, as a line of thunderstorms moved through the region. Highway 298 was closed just west of Masonville, and Highways 762 and 764 were closed near the Ohio County line. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Pettit | - | Sutherland Road was closed at the bridge over Panther Creek due to flooding. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuck | 1.2 miles | 15 | |
| Crow (historical) | 1.3 miles | 15 | |
| Sutherland | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Twin Lakes | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Hickman (historical) | 2.8 miles | 17 | |
| Rome | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Browns Valley | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Moseleyville | 3.7 miles | 15 |
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 Pettit | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7179357 | The 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 500485. 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.