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Rivals, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Spencer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40065. The Survey maps it on the Taylorsville quadrangle.

Rivals within Spencer County

On record in Rivals

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Rivals between 2005 and 2011, burning about 13 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 ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
15 February 2011Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN RIDGE FIRE
8 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rivals in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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
February 2018FloodRivals-High water flooded road and bridge at the intersection of Little Mount Road, Haley Road, and Figg Store Road.

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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
Normandy2.0 miles11
Yoder3.3 miles11
Elk Creek3.5 miles11
Little Mount3.8 miles11
Taylorsville5.0 miles11
Riverhill Farm (historical)5.6 miles11
Wilsonville5.8 miles12
Leatherwoods Settlement (historical)6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501976. 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.