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Richardsville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Greencastle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green North quadrangle.

Richardsville within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Richardsville between 1998 and 2014, burning about 120 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 ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
13 April 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 1998Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 March 2002Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 February 2014Recreation and ceremony18 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHIPPOORWILL TRAIL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richardsville in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2003Thunderstorm WindRichardsville$25,000A tree was uprooted and crushed two cars.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Richardsville$13,500A brief F0 tornado touched down in Richardsville blowing off a few roofs and downing several trees. DES and the public sighted the tornado, and one resident captured it on video.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindRichardsville-Trees were blown down and blocking the road.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindRichardsville-A trained spotter reported wind gusts estimated to be 65 mph. Pea sized hail was also observed at the same time.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRichardsville-Trees and power lines were downed in Richardsville.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRichardsville-Power lines and poles were downed.
April 1999HailRichardsville-Golf ball size hail
July 2008HailRichardsville-no account filed
March 2006HailRichardsville-no account filed
April 2006HailRichardsville-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindRichardsville-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
Greencastle1.6 miles15
Anna2.7 miles15
Rays Branch (historical)2.8 miles15
Benleo3.9 miles13
Sand Hill4.5 miles15
Barren River4.5 miles13
Riverside5.4 miles14
Glenmore5.8 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 RichardsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22059258The 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 501807. 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.