BlockRed Hill, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Utica-Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42376. The Survey maps it on the Utica quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 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.
- 1906 USGS Sutherland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Utica quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 2000 and 2017, burning about 82 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 March 2017 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOLING ROAD |
| 6 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 March 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Red Hill in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2016: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Red Hill | $30,000 | no account filed |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Red Hill | - | Flash flooding of the north fork of Barnett Creek sent water rushing over a secondary road near where it intersects U.S. Highway 231. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Red Hill | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maxwell | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Utica | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Livia | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Masonville | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Browns Valley | 4.6 miles | 17 | |
| Hickman (historical) | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Laffoon | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Sutherland | 5.9 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508911. 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.