BlockRocky Hill, Kentucky
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Rocky Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42141. The Survey maps it on the Lucas quadrangle.
On record in Rocky Hill
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 2 records
- Octagon Cottagelisted 1983
- Franklin Settle Houselisted 1983
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1926 USGS Scottsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Lucas quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Hill between 1998 and 2014, burning about 22 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 ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 April 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 16 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 15 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | ROCKY FIRE |
| 12 March 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 November 1998 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 November 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BOATMAN RD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rocky Hill in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Hill | - | A tree was reported down on the 5000 block of Finney Road in Glasgow. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Hill | - | A tree blew down on Joe Morris Road near Finney Road. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Rocky Hill | - | A large cedar tree fell near the intersection of Settles Road and Highway 252. |
| January 2013 | Tornado (EF1) | Rocky Hill | - | A short-lived EF-1 tornado destroyed a well built barn and knocked down several trees along Finney Road, located a mile east of the small town of Rocky Hill. |
| March 1997 | Hail | Rocky Hill | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Rocky Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q24191598 | The 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 508961. 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.