BlockPoole, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sebree census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42455. The Survey maps it on the Poole quadrangle. 354 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 498 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 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 Sebree quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1949 USGS Poole quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Poole quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Poole quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Poole between 2003 and 2012, burning about 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FLAMING TI |
| 3 April 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BROKEN CHAIN FIRE |
| 17 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Poole in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poole | $10,000 | Trees and power lines were down in the Dixon and Poole areas. Highway 41A was down to one lane 1.5 miles south of Poole due to a power line down. |
| June 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poole | $10,000 | The steeple was blown off a church, damaging the church's roof and the sidewalk below. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Poole | - | A report of quarter size hail was received about a mile east of Poole through an NSSL project. A post office reported dime size hail in Poole. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Poole | - | Trees were blown down across Highway 41A and Highway 56. |
| October 2007 | Hail | Poole | - | no account filed |
| June 2002 | Hail | Poole | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanamaker | 2.9 miles | 13 | |
| Tilden | 4.3 miles | 13 | |
| Pratt | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Ortiz | 6.1 miles | 15 | |
| Sebree | 6.5 miles | 15 | |
| Little Zion | 7.8 miles | 13 | |
| Steamport Landing | 8.7 miles | 14 | |
| Gatesville | 8.7 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 Poole | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7228605 | 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 501069. 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.