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Rich Pond, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Woodburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42104. The Survey maps it on the Rockfield quadrangle.

Rich Pond within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Photographs

3 photographs, 1916

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

[Rich Pond School (consolidated). See Kentucky report.]  Location: [Warren County, Kentucky
[Rich Pond School (consolidated). See Kentucky report.] Location: [Warren County, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
Rich Pond School (consolidated). See Kentucky report.  Location: Warren County, Kentucky
Rich Pond School (consolidated). See Kentucky report. Location: Warren County, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
[Rich Pond School (consolidated). See Kentucky report.]  Location: [Warren County, Kentucky
[Rich Pond School (consolidated). See Kentucky report.] Location: [Warren County, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Rich Pond between 2006 and 2016, burning about 17 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 October 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryDEWEY LAKE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rich Pond in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995HailRich Pond$75,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRich Pond-Four trees were uprooted on London Road.
April 2025Flash FloodRich Pond-There were multiple water rescues in the McLellan neighborhood.
April 2025Flash FloodRich Pond-There was a stranded care in high water on County House Lane.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRich Pond-The Bowling Green Mesonet measured a wind gust of 75 MPH.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRich Pond-The Bowling Green Mesonet measured a wind gust of 75 MPH.
May 2019HailRich Pond-One and a quarter inch hail was reported.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindRich Pond-The public reported downed trees due to severe thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindRich Pond-An observer measured a 63 mph wind gust.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindRich Pond-Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2000HailRich Pond-Large hail fell over much of southern Warren County.
June 2011HailRich Pond-no account filed
June 2006HailRich Pond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Rockfield3.1 miles10
Old Trinity (historical)3.2 miles16
Memphis Junction3.5 miles16
Woodburn3.7 miles9
Three Springs4.1 miles16
Lost River4.4 miles16
Old Zion (historical)4.5 miles9
Petros4.6 miles10

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 Rich PondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122553524The 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 501793. 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.