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Rock Haven, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Brandenburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40108. It lies in Rock Haven Valley. The Survey maps it on the Rock Haven quadrangle.

Rock Haven within Meade County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Rock Haven between 2002 and 2016, burning about 68 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 ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
6 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIndiana State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2010Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2014Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROLLING ACRES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meade 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 Rock Haven: 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
No. 4 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Meade County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Haven in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 4 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
June 2015Thunderstorm WindRock Haven$1,000The Meade County emergency manager reported that power lines were down on Rock Ridge Road due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRock Haven-Multiple trees were downed by strong winds onto homes and roads across eastern Meade County. Power lines were also brought down by strong winds and falling trees.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindRock Haven-There were trees down on the 3000 block of State Road 1638.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRock Haven-There were several trees reported down in the eastern part of the county.

Every storm recorded in Meade 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
Lickskillet0.9 miles16
Hughes Landing1.8 miles16
Doe Valley3.3 miles16
Muldraugh3.4 miles14
Grahamton3.4 miles16
Pilcher Landing3.7 miles16
Johnstown (historical)4.0 miles14
Buck Grove4.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508952. 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.