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Pine Hill, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40456. It lies near Lime Plant Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle.

Pine Hill within Rockcastle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

346 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 346 fires within 5 miles of Pine Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 9,500 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 128 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/incendiarism128
Debris and open burning128
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mullins MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Hill in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
April 2025Thunderstorm WindPine Hill-Rockcastle County 911 Center reported a tree down on 100 block of Upper Calloway Loop near the intersection of S. Wilderness Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPine Hill-A tree was down near MM 10 on US-25 South Daniel Boone Trail.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindPine Hill-Rockcastle County dispatch reported a tree blown down at the intersection of US-25 and Upper Calloway Loop.
February 2023Thunderstorm WindPine Hill-A tree was reported down on US-25 near the community of Pine Hill.
July 2017FloodPine Hill-A trained spotter observed flood waters on Honeycomb Road in Mount Vernon, causing the road to be impassable. Other low lying areas were also flooded as heavy rain moved through.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindPine Hill-A tree was blown down on Calloway Branch.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindPine Hill-Trees and power lines were blown down in Pine Hill.
April 2002HailPine Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Sinks1.6 miles15
Mullins2.2 miles15
Flat Rock2.2 miles16
Burr2.4 miles16
Orlando3.0 miles16
Wellhope3.1 miles16
Livingston3.4 miles15
Mount Vernon4.4 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514583. 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.