BlockPride, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sturgis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42437. The Survey maps it on the Sturgis quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 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.
- 1907 USGS Morganfield quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1951 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1969 USGS Sturgis quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Pride between 2000 and 2016, burning about 71 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 March 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | MANSION FIRE |
| 21 March 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SWINGSET |
| 29 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 November 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DAVE MILLER ROAD FIRE |
| 12 November 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CALI FIRE |
| 6 October 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 October 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pride in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pride | $60,000 | A double wide mobile home was knocked off of its foundation and the roof was ripped off just west of Pride. A large barn was also destroyed in this area. |
| March 2009 | Hail | Pride | $50,000 | Very large hail occurred with the supercell that crossed the county. Baseball size hail near the community of Pride broke windshields and shredded siding of modular homes. Quarter-size hail was reported in Morganfield. |
| August 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Pride | $1,000 | Downed tree limbs blocked roads in southern Union County. Two miles northeast of Pride, a tree limb was down, blocking State Route 141. About a mile east-northeast of the Sturgis airport, a downed tree limb blocked a secondary road off Highway 270. |
| May 2025 | Funnel Cloud | Pride | - | A cold air funnel formed between Sullivan and Pride. |
| July 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Pride | - | A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud went down and back up. |
| June 2006 | Hail | Pride | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bordley | 1.1 miles | 13 | |
| Eberly (historical) | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Arnold | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Cullen | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Yuba | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Kern Orchard | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Sturgis | 5.0 miles | 14 | |
| Sullivan | 5.1 miles | 13 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501341. 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.