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Rockfield, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bowling Green census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42274. The Survey maps it on the Rockfield quadrangle. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Rockfield within Warren County

On record in Rockfield

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1916

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families represented in photo. See special card and Kentucky report.  Location: Warren County--Rockfield, Kentucky
Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families represented in photo. See special card and Kentucky report. Location: Warren County--Rockfield, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress
[Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families represented in photo. See special card and Kentucky report.  Location: [Warren County--Rockfield, Kentucky
[Family of J.H. Burch, Route 1, Rockfield, Ky. Boys 12, 14 and 17 (stripping tobacco) working during school hours. Have been out a good deal. Go to Quarry School (6-12). Two families represented in photo. See special card and Kentucky report. Location: [Warren County--Rockfield, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rockfield between 2000 and 2011, burning about 31 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
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
21 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Rockfield: 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
Tri County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockfield in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindRockfield$50,000Local broadcast media reported severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a barn.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindRockfield$25,000The public reported that severe thunderstorm winds flattened a barn.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindRockfield-Trees were blown over in the Weather Stone subdivision, which also brought down power lines.
May 2021Flash FloodRockfield-Rockfield Browning Road had four feet of water over the roadway.
February 2018Thunderstorm WindRockfield-Trained spotters reported trees down in the area.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindRockfield-There was a tree down across Nashville Road south of Chaney.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindRockfield-Many hardwood trees downed near Bogle Road.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindRockfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Petros1.9 miles10
Rich Pond3.1 miles10
Browning3.5 miles10
Pilot Knob (historical)4.5 miles9
Memphis Junction4.6 miles16
Blue Level4.8 miles10
Old Zion (historical)5.0 miles9
Woodburn5.1 miles9

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 RockfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191591The 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 502163. 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.