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Rectorville, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41056. The Survey maps it on the Orangeburg quadrangle.

Rectorville within Mason County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rectorville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 55 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
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
30 April 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK RD
14 April 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMAXEY FLAT
22 March 2013Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRAYCRAFT LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rectorville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cabin Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rectorville in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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
February 2025FloodRectorville-Bridgeport Road was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Plumville2.3 miles12
Orangeburg2.3 miles12
Springdale3.4 miles12
Taylors Mill (historical)4.6 miles12
Bates (historical)5.0 miles15
Somo5.3 miles12
Mount Gilead5.4 miles12
Marshall6.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501641. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.