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Pleasant Green Hill, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hopkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42240. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Green Hill quadrangle.

Pleasant Green Hill within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

20 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Pleasant Green Hill between 2001 and 2019, burning about 247 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 June 2012Smokingunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMEDIAN FIR
7 April 2001Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2014Railroad operations and maintenance18 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOPKINSVILLE /MT ZION
25 April 2009Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Pleasant Green Hill: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Allied MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Old Highway ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Christian County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pleasant Green Hill in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPleasant Green Hill$150,000Trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down. Trees fell on at least several vehicles. Tree limbs were down on roads, blocking several of them. The roof over an indoor pool at an apartment complex on the southwest side of Hopkinsville was ripped off. Large trees at the complex were snapped or uprooted. Vehicles in the parking lot of the complex were damaged by falling trees. A window was broken, and shingles were blown off apartment building roofs. Northwest of the city, a pole barn was destroyed and the roof of a home was damaged. About 4,000 utility customers lost power.
February 2018Tornado (EF0)Pleasant Green Hill$20,000The path of this EF-0 tornado started on the west side of the Pennyrile Parkway, then moved northeast across Lake Morris. At least four barns or sheds were damaged, primarily due to partial loss of roofing and siding. One camper trailer was overturned. Limbs were broken off hundreds of trees. Some trees were uprooted. There was one eyewitness account of the tornado near the start of the damage track. The track ended on the northwest side of Highway 107. Peak winds were estimated near 85 mph.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPleasant Green Hill$2,000A tree was downed over Old Madisonville Rd. Power outages were reported in Hopkinsville.
May 2025HailPleasant Green Hill-Hail measured to nickel size fell on Douglas Combs Rd off of KY-109 north of Hopkinsville.
July 2025Funnel CloudPleasant Green Hill-A small funnel cloud was visible on the Christian County Kentucky Mesonet webcam.
May 2016Tornado (EF0)Pleasant Green Hill-A trained spotter sighted a tornado on the west side of U.S. Highway 41 near Lake Blythe. The touchdown appeared to be brief. This tornado was spawned from the same supercell that produced a brief tornado in western Christian County north of Highway 68. Maximum winds were estimated near 70 mph.

Every storm recorded in Christian 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
Sinking Fork3.8 miles8
Kelly3.9 miles9
Palestine (historical)4.3 miles8
Hopkinsville4.8 miles8
Canton Pike5.4 miles9
Cavanaugh5.5 miles9
Walnut Grove5.5 miles9
Merrittstown6.2 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122562742The 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 500804. 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.