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Rabbit Town, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It lies near Crow Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle. It stands 807 feet above sea level.

Rabbit Town within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

31 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Rabbit Town between 1999 and 2019, burning about 316 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/undetermined15
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 September 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 August 2002Debris and open burning21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOPPERAS C
13 June 2000Debris and open burning95 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRED BIRD LANE
27 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rabbit Town in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindRabbit Town-Trees were blown down in rural portions of southeastern Clark County near the Powell County line.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Rightangle1.0 miles15
Snowden (historical)1.6 miles15
Goffs Corner1.6 miles15
Pine Ridge (historical)2.4 miles15
Trapp2.6 miles15
Midway (historical)3.1 miles15
New Providence (historical)3.2 miles12
Log Lick3.4 miles15

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 Rabbit TownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7278622The 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 508893. 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.