BlockPope, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Halfway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. The Survey maps it on the Allen Springs quadrangle. It stands 732 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 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.
- 1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
- 1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Allen Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
5 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pope between 2006 and 2014, burning about 13 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 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TOWER FIRE |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SQUIRE LIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pope in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2016: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pope | $30,000 | State officials reported trees down on Pope Road. Other trees down across the county resulted in power lines down as well. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pope | - | Trees were reported down on Squire Lyles Road. |
| July 2015 | Flood | Pope | - | An official with KYTC District 3 reported that KY 585 between mile points 6-7, KY 1332 between mile points 3-5, KY 2160 between mile points 0-1 and KY 1533 between mile points 0-1 were closed from 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trammel | 1.7 miles | 13 | |
| Butlersville | 2.0 miles | 13 | |
| Red Hill | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Aerial | 2.9 miles | 14 | |
| Halfway | 3.2 miles | 13 | |
| West Fork | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Chapel Hill | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| McElroy Ford | 4.2 miles | 12 |
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 Pope | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16898692 | 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 508850. 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.