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Rio, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hammonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42765. It lies near Rocky Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Canmer quadrangle.

Rio within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

13 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rio between 2005 and 2011, burning about 60 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony3

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
12 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rio in 1 storm report in 2026: 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindRio-A tree was down Pikeview Road near Powder Mills Road.

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Old Linwood (historical)1.0 miles12
Glen Lily1.5 miles12
Linwood1.5 miles12
Canmer2.0 miles12
Hinesdale2.8 miles12
Powder Mill3.6 miles8
Pike View4.3 miles11
Hardyville4.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508941. 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.