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Roundstone, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Conway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40456. The Survey maps it on the Wildie quadrangle.

Roundstone within Rockcastle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

1 photograph, 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.

Roundstone School. Many poorly built schools in county.  Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky
Roundstone School. Many poorly built schools in county. Location: Rockcastle County, Kentucky
Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1916. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Roundstone between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,360 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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
Debris and open burning50
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
23 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Arson/incendiarism12 acresDaniel Boone National ForestGREEN POND
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 1999Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle 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 Roundstone: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Rockcastle-Garrard Shale ExposureClayProspect

Every working recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

13 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roundstone in 13 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRoundstone$5,000The Hazard and Lexington broadcast media reported that powerful thunderstorm wind gusts caused a 100-foot antenna tower to fall onto a home along Grace Loop Road. Other than a dented roof, there was no apparent structural damage to the home. Multiple trees and branches were also blown down around the home.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRoundstone$250Pictures on social media showed trees and limbs blown down by strong thunderstorm wind gusts in Roundstone.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRoundstone-Rockcastle dispatch reported a tree blown down onto Old Sigmon Loop Road, near the community of Roundstone and north of Renfro Valley.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindRoundstone-The county dispatch reported two trees blown down on Renfro Creek Road. One tree was large and laid across the entire highway near the intersection with Hurricane School Road. The other, smaller tree was reported about 1.5 miles out of Mount Vernon.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRoundstone-The Rockcastle County dispatch reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts had knocked down a tree near the intersection of Old Sigmon Loop and US-25.
February 2019FloodRoundstone-A citizen reported water over Grace Loop Road near Roundstone, forcing the closure of the road.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindRoundstone-A tree was blown down along Scaffold Cane Rd.
May 2010FloodRoundstone-The Rockcastle county sheriff reported that most of the roads north of Roundstone were under water.
May 2010FloodRoundstone-Wildie Rd was closed due to flooding.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindRoundstone-Several trees blown down.
April 2015HailRoundstone-no account filed
April 2006HailRoundstone-no account filed
June 2001HailRoundstone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Wildie1.2 miles13
Conway2.9 miles13
Hummel3.3 miles13
Renfro Valley3.6 miles13
Disputanta4.6 miles13
Orlando5.2 miles16
Climax5.2 miles15
Boone5.5 miles18

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 RoundstoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25021791The 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 515135. 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.