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Rowletts, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Horse Cave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42749. It lies near Summer Seat Knob. The Survey maps it on the Horse Cave quadrangle.

Rowletts within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Rowletts between 1998 and 2017, burning about 74 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryYODER FIRE
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMCCUBBINS FIRE
28 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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 Rowletts: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Geralds Stone Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Horse Cave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rowletts in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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 (EF2)Rowletts1 hurtThis tornado formed approximately 1.6 miles west southwest of Rowletts near L and N Turnpike Road and tracked northeast for approximately 14.2 miles before crossing into western Green County. The tornado continued approximately 9.7 miles into Green County before dissipating at 0215 CST. In Hart County, the same supercell which came from Bowling Green extended another tornado to the ground on the down-sloping side of Fisher Ridge, just east of I-65 on Highway 335. Here, many barns collapsed on tobacco farms and hardwood trees were snapped. The tornado then continued through Rowletts where snapped/uprooted large trees and roof damage was found at the Caveland Country Club. The tornado then encountered terrain on Dawson Knob where little damage was found, however the tornado quickly intensified on the down-sloping side. The tornado continued down Shady Lane Church Rd. where it destroyed many homes, took roofs off structures and homes, collapsed well-built barns, destroyed an Amish schoolhouse, snapped/uprooted many trees, downed many powerlines, and took the lives of many farm animals. The tornado weakened to the northeast of Hardyville where damage was determined to be EF1 and EF0 to the Green County border.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindRowletts-Multiple reports of trees down in southern Hart County. Tree damage was reported on the 2000 block of South Dixie Highway, along Lawler Road, Shady Lane Church Road, Logsdon Valley Road, and Caldwell Road North. Nearby Kentucky Mesonet station HDYV gusted to 56 mph.
January 2022Thunderstorm WindRowletts-There were numerous trees down in Rowletts.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindRowletts-The Hart County emergency manager reported several trees down across the county due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRowletts-A Hart County law enforcement official reported that a large tree fell down across US 31W near Rowletts due to severe thunderstorm winds.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindRowletts-Several trees were downed near Rowletts and Monroe in central Hart County.
May 2010Flash FloodRowletts-Kentucky 335 between the 2 and 3 mile markers was closed due to high water.
April 2002HailRowletts-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Woodsonville1.5 miles11
Munfordville2.2 miles11
Perryville3.1 miles11
Logsdon Valley4.0 miles11
Leitchfield Crossing4.3 miles11
Horse Cave4.3 miles12
Mount Beulah4.6 miles11
Bunnell Crossing4.8 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 502434. 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.