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Rosewood, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Rosewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. The Survey maps it on the Rosewood quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Rosewood within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

23 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Rosewood between 1999 and 2019, burning about 190 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/undetermined6
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 1999Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 1999Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2016Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJESS WINN ROAD
12 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rosewood in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2013Tornado (EF2)Rosewood$250,000Peak winds were estimated near 120 mph. The average path width was 275 yards. Large portions of the roof structure were removed from one home, including rafters. Several other homes lost varying numbers of shingles. Siding was damaged on several homes, along with a few destroyed porches. Two mobile homes were completely destroyed, including one mobile home that was overturned. Hundreds of trees were snapped or uprooted. Power outages were reported.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindRosewood$50,000The downburst damage path entered Muhlenberg County from the northeast corner of Todd County. The path of damage averaged about one-third mile wide. A few thousand trees were uprooted by winds estimated near 110 mph. Some barns and other sheds were levelled or heavily damaged. Several homes and other buildings had roofs, including decking, partially removed. A couple of homes received damage to walls of attached garages. Many other homes received minor damage, including loss of shingles and siding.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRosewood$5,000Many branches and tree limbs were downed by a morning line of thunderstorms. A few trees were downed along hedge rows.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindRosewood$1,000In Rosewood, about a half dozen tree limbs several inches in diameter were blown down. Gable fascia was stripped off the west side of a house. A small shed was overturned, and a large tree was broken off. A spotter about midway between Rosewood and Belton estimated 60 MPH winds at his location.
April 1998HailRosewood-Dime size hail was reported at Lake Malone.
December 2011FloodRosewood-no account filed
August 2009HailRosewood-no account filed
April 2003HailRosewood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Little Mountain (historical)2.5 miles12
Carters Creek (historical)3.5 miles15
Myers Chapel (historical)3.6 miles12
Greenbriar (historical)3.8 miles14
Wells3.9 miles15
Leighs (historical)4.7 miles15
Dunmor5.0 miles11
Penrod5.1 miles11

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 RosewoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7368767The 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 502355. 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.