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Richelieu, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Auburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42276. It lies in Richelieu Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Grove quadrangle.

Richelieu within Logan 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

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Richelieu between 2000 and 2014, burning about 101 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/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 March 2014Recreation and ceremony72 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCKSVILLE RD
15 March 2000Arson/incendiarism23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 October 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIDEAWAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan 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 Richelieu: 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
Sugar Grove ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richelieu in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 hail. 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 2019HailRichelieu-One inch hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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
Buffalo Fork1.0 miles8
Pauline (historical)3.5 miles11
Costelow4.1 miles8
Gasper4.6 miles8
Anderson5.8 miles11
Gupton Grove (historical)6.4 miles11
Chandlers Chapel6.6 miles8
Sugar Grove (historical)7.7 miles8

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 RichelieuAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q123423455The 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 508934. 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.