Pig, Kentucky
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brownsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42171. The Survey maps it on the Rhoda quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 23 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.
- 1922 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
- 1923 USGS Mammoth Cave quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Rhoda quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1965 USGS Rhoda quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Pig between 1995 and 2014, burning about 190 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | CEDARHILL2 |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | LITTLE FIR |
| 24 July 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | DOYEL VALLEY |
| 30 June 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | NOAH BLEDS |
| 4 April 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | BLUFFS01 |
| 3 April 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mammoth Cave National Park | HOGAN |
| 19 April 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PIG ROAD |
| 11 April 1995 | Smoking | 144 acres | Mammoth Cave National Park | JIM LEE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pig: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Park City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pig in 2 storm reports in 2018: 1 tornado, 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Pig | - | A brief tornado touchdown was embedded at the end of a longer axis of straight line winds about 6.2 miles SE of Brownsville. Evidence of cyclonic rotation was noted in this concentrated area of damage where several 1 to 2 foot diameter trees were either uprooted or snapped. On the south side of the path, trees were laying in an ENE direction, with the trees on the left/north side of the path laying NNW. The tornado touchdown was very brief and lifted at the intersection of Cedar Sink Road and Brownsville Road just inside the SW border of Mammoth Cave National Park. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph, with a max path width of 65 yards. The path length was about a third of a mile and the tornado was on the ground for less than 1 minute. |
| November 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pig | - | Two trees were reported down on Mammoth Cave Road in Mammoth Cave Park. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Spring | 1.2 miles | 24 | |
| Elko | 2.7 miles | 23 | |
| Rhoda | 3.3 miles | 23 | |
| Chalybeate | 3.5 miles | 23 | |
| Arthur | 3.5 miles | 23 | |
| Sloans Crossing | 4.1 miles | 22 | |
| Rocky Hill | 4.8 miles | 24 | |
| Union City | 5.2 miles | 22 |
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 Pig | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7193193 | 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 508818. 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.







