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Round Hill, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Kirksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. It stands on Round Hill. The Survey maps it on the Kirksville quadrangle.

Round Hill within Madison County

On record in Round 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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

12 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Round Hill between 1999 and 2016, burning about 89 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking1
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 August 1999Natural30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 February 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDRY BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Round Hill: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Harmony Church Clay BedClayProspect
Price Valley QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Round Hill in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2021Tornado (EF1)Round Hill-The tornado touched down just west of Highway 595, northwest of the Kirksville community in western Madison county. There were some twisted trees in a forest grove. The tornado then hit an old farmhouse as well as a 30 X 50 foot barn. Damage from the barn was thrown to the southeast, east, northeast, and north direction. This tornado was very intermittent and was skipping with peak wind speeds of 90 mph, and widths ranging from 40 yards to a max of 75 yards. ||The NWS drone found a few twisted trees up to a quarter of a mile northeast of the farmhouse. There was no damage past that point. Immediately north of the farmhouse tornado damage, there was an older barn destroyed as well as an older tree knocked over. This was straight line wind damage of 50 to 55 mph.
May 2010HailRound Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Kirksville1.0 miles15
Silver Creek3.0 miles17
Happy Landing3.2 miles15
Ruthton3.8 miles15
Duncanon3.8 miles17
Buggytown3.9 miles17
Crow Valley4.2 miles15
Cottonburg4.3 miles15

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 Round HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691182The 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 502399. 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.