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Rockbridge, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mount Hermon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42167. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Lick quadrangle.

Rockbridge within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

34 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Rockbridge between 1999 and 2017, burning about 1,106 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 May 2007Debris and open burning73 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOOLEY RIDGE FIRE
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockbridge in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindRockbridge$30,000State officials reported several trees and power lines down in the area.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindRockbridge$10,000A barn was damaged about a quarter mile east of Rockbridge.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRockbridge-The Monroe County emergency manager reported that 2 trees were downed across the county. One fell across Celine Road just north of Tompkinsville.
July 2018HailRockbridge-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindRockbridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Persimmon2.6 miles9
Bushong2.9 miles13
Forkton3.1 miles13
Sulphur Lick3.2 miles9
Cyclone3.7 miles9
Grandview4.4 miles13
Mud Lick5.5 miles8
Tompkinsville5.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508956. 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.