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Roachville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greensburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. The Survey maps it on the Gresham quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Roachville within Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

45 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Roachville between 1998 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
24 August 1999Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2010Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLEMONS BEND RD. FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green 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 Roachville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Greensburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roachville in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRoachville-A tree was blown down on River Bluff Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRoachville-The public reported trees down in the area.

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Whitewood3.0 miles9
Bluff Boom3.2 miles9
Gresham3.3 miles10
Haskingsville4.0 miles10
Greensburg4.2 miles9
Black Gnat4.4 miles9
Mount Gilead5.1 miles10
Bramlett5.8 miles10

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 RoachvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691160The 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 508945. 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.