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Roundhill, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 42275. The Survey maps it on the Reedyville quadrangle.

Roundhill within Edmonson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

29 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Roundhill between 1998 and 2018, burning about 554 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
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
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLEEPY HOLLOW
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREGION

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roundhill in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRoundhill$20,000Several trees, fences, and a windmill blown down on J.O. Davis Road near Roundhill, Kentucky.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRoundhill-Several trees were blown down.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindRoundhill-Several trees were reported down.
April 2004HailRoundhill-no account filed
April 2003HailRoundhill-no account filed
April 2002HailRoundhill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Big Reedy2.2 miles13
Segal3.3 miles14
Huff3.4 miles13
Sunfish5.3 miles13
Asphalt5.3 miles13
Black Gold5.6 miles13
Slate Bank (historical)5.7 miles13
Nash5.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508979. 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.