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Preachersville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Crab Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. The Survey maps it on the Lancaster quadrangle. It stands 988 feet above sea level.

Preachersville within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

39 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Preachersville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning15
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3

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
21 September 2020Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPETTIT
25 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH FORK
5 April 2013Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDRIPPING SPRINGS
5 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Preachersville in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPreachersville-A tree was blown down over the 4100 block of Preachersville Road, blocking two lanes.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPreachersville-Multiple trees were blown down along Kentucky Route 39 in eastern Lincoln county and southwestern Garrard County.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindPreachersville-A tree was blown down along Harmons Lick Road near the 3200 block.
July 2022Flash FloodPreachersville-A few county roads were flooded.
May 2010Flash FloodPreachersville-Six inches of water was flowing over Frog Branch Rd. near Hustonville resulting in a road closure. Flooding was also occurring in Stanford at the intersection of State Roads 27 and 78.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Goshen3.0 miles12
Walnut Flat3.2 miles7
Fall Lick (historical)3.6 miles12
Gilbert4.5 miles12
Crab Orchard4.6 miles7
Colliers Store (historical)4.8 miles7
Sugar Grove5.1 miles7
Avondale (historical)5.1 miles7

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 PreachersvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7239304The 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 508870. 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.