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Rhodelia, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Battletown-Payneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40161. The Survey maps it on the Alton quadrangle. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Rhodelia within Meade County

On record in Rhodelia

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Rhodelia between 2000 and 2019, burning about 140 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUNER VALLEY ROAD
6 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEAD HORSE HOLLOW FIRE
7 March 2000Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rhodelia in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 hail, 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
March 2025HailRhodelia-Between nickel and dime sized hail was observed at the Rhodelia Volunteer Fire Department.
December 2015HailRhodelia-Meade County law enforcement reported to the NWS that hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter fell.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRhodelia-Numerous trees were downed in Rhodelia and a roof was blown off a hay barn on Popham Road.
March 2012HailRhodelia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Andyville3.2 miles15
Preston (historical)3.3 miles17
Concordia3.6 miles16
Liberty5.6 miles15
Payneville5.8 miles15
Beechland6.1 miles15
Arnold (historical)6.7 miles15
Wolf Creek6.8 miles16

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 RhodeliaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7320993The 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 508929. 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.