BlockRed Hill, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adolphus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. It stands on Snyder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Adolphus quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1928 USGS Adolphus (North Half) quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
- 1954 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 2002 and 2012, burning about 3 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 | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SQUIRE LIL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Hill in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Hill | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew the underpinning out of a mobile home. An outbuilding was destroyed. A few trees were blown down, and some patio furniture was tossed around. |
| February 2020 | Flood | Red Hill | - | There were reports of flooding on roads near Highway 585 and West Old State Road. |
| June 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Hill | - | There were trees reported down at Franklin Road and Chapel Hill Road. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Hill | - | State officials reported trees down on Old Franklin Road. |
| April 2011 | Flash Flood | Red Hill | - | Dispatch reported road closures on KY 585, Old Franklin Rd., between mile markers 7 and 8. |
| February 2011 | Flash Flood | Red Hill | - | Old Franklin Rd. was closed at several locations due to flooding. |
| August 2010 | Flood | Red Hill | - | Water over KY 585 between mile markers 7 and 8 led to the road being closed. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapel Hill | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Pope | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Butlersville | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| West Fork | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Halfway | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Rodemer | 4.0 miles | 12 | |
| Alonzo | 4.1 miles | 12 | |
| Petroleum | 4.2 miles | 12 |
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 Red Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q16899214 | The 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 508910. 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.