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Reedyville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jetson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42275. The Survey maps it on the Reedyville quadrangle.

Reedyville within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

28 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Reedyville between 2000 and 2018, burning about 586 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/undetermined18
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLEEPY HOLLOW
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREGION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Reedyville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Gully ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reedyville in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 4 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindReedyville$5,000The Butler County emergency manager reported numerous large trees down, along with siding and fencing blown down.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindReedyville-A tree was blown down on Reedyville Road south of Roundhill.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindReedyville-The Butler County emergency manager reported trees down in the area due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindReedyville-Butler County emergency dispatch reported a tree down on Kentucky Highway 185 near Reedyville.

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
Naker (historical)2.0 miles14
Vineyard4.8 miles14
Greenwood (historical)5.6 miles14
Millshed (historical)5.8 miles14
Whittinghill6.3 miles11
Horsemill6.3 miles14
Centhro (historical)6.5 miles11
Jetson6.6 miles14

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 ReedyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85796408The 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 508917. 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.