BlockPost, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Caneyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42721. The Survey maps it on the Caneyville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 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 Leitchfield quadrangle1:48000
- 1925 USGS Leitchfield quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Caneyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Caneyville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
2 photographs, 1940Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
16 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Post between 1998 and 2017, burning about 146 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2010 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BLAINE HILL |
| 23 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 May 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PINE KNOB |
| 3 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 2 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PINE DR. |
| 21 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LOGSDON FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2026Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Post in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | Tornado (EF0) | Post | - | The first report of the tornado came from Caneyville Fire Department of a tornado touchdown observed north of Caneyville. Damage was observed from high resolution satellite data north of Caneyville with tree damage near Highway 79 to near Choncie Lee Road. The tornado continued along Hopewell Road in Grayson County near the Caneyville and Millwood areas. Several farm outbuildings had the roof peeled off, with one farm having wood planks from the barn damage thrusted into the nearby residence. The residence also had shingle damage. Max winds of 100 mph were estimated in this location.||The tornado continued to the northeast across Jones Hill and highway 54 to Stones Chapel Road. Several farm outbuildings and tree damage was observed, including roof material lofted into nearby trees. The tornado continued across Clifty Church Drive |where a farm had damage to several outbuildings where rooftops were destroyed. At this location, 3 head of cattle were fatally injured resulting in roughly $7K in damages. Debris from the farm was lofted into the treeline about a tenth of a mile from the |property. ||The tornado continued to the northeast toward Lilac where several farm outbuildings on a hill top were completely destroyed. Wood planks were driven into the ground in several directions and debris was lofted over the nearby hill. Significant tree damage |was observed here as well. Max estimated wind speeds of 110 mph were observed here.||The tornado continued to the northeast toward Brandenburg Road where trees were uprooted. The tornado crossed Rough River Lake several times, causing some structural and tree damage into Breckinridge 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Knob | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Caneyville | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Short Creek | 3.8 miles | 12 | |
| Smithview | 4.2 miles | 11 | |
| Spring Lick | 4.7 miles | 11 | |
| Millwood | 4.8 miles | 12 | |
| Tousey | 4.8 miles | 11 | |
| Do Stop | 4.9 miles | 11 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508862. 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.