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Provo, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rochester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42273. The Survey maps it on the South Hill quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Provo within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

21 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Provo between 2000 and 2017, burning about 235 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 February 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySWEEZERTOWN
24 February 2014Debris and open burning21 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTWO SLOUGH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Provo in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2010Thunderstorm WindProvo-Trees were reported downed in Provo with wind gusts estimated to be 60 mph.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindProvo-Trees were reported down in Provo.
April 2008FloodProvo-The Green River at Rochester crested at 22.8 feet around 5 AM CST on April 8. Flood stage at Rochester is 17 feet. Minor flooding occurs at this level, with ferry operations suspended.
December 2007FloodProvo-One county road was closed due to high water. Other roads were had water over them, but were passable.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Mining City2.7 miles11
Rochester3.7 miles11
Pleasant Hill4.1 miles11
South Hill4.1 miles11
Hope (historical)4.5 miles11
Logansport4.8 miles12
Dunbar4.9 miles11
Huntsville5.6 miles11

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 ProvoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691123The 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 508882. 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.