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Richland, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Madisonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42431. It stands on Richland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Madisonville West quadrangle.

Richland within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

29 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Richland between 2001 and 2016, burning about 354 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLABOR
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONE TREE FIRE
22 September 2010Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBULAH 109
20 August 2007Debris and open burning74 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined114 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIRDS NEST
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLIGHTNING
13 July 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROCK SPARK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 1 heavy rain, 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 2006Heavy RainRichland-Slow-moving thunderstorms redeveloped over the same local area. Two inches of water was reported over Highway 70.
July 2012HailRichland-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Oriole1.9 miles14
Pleasant View (historical)3.0 miles14
Southard3.4 miles12
Fiddle Bow3.4 miles13
Pee Vee3.5 miles14
Hecla3.6 miles14
West Side Heights3.8 miles14
Earlington4.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501811. 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.