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Ruthton, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cottonburg-Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. It stands on Tracy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kirksville quadrangle. It stands 705 feet above sea level.

Ruthton within Madison County

On record in Ruthton

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Ruthton between 1999 and 2016, burning about 81 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural1

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 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 August 1999Natural30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ruthton in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 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
January 2013Thunderstorm WindRuthton$2,000A barn roof was heavily damaged. Several trees were downed nearby.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindRuthton-A large barn sustained significant damage along Poosey Ridge Road.
April 2012Thunderstorm WindRuthton-Local emergency management reported a tree down across Curtis Pike.

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
Crow Valley1.1 miles15
Cottonburg1.5 miles15
Newby2.3 miles15
Edenton3.6 miles15
Round Hill3.8 miles15
Million4.1 miles15
Baldwin4.4 miles15
Kirksville4.8 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 RuthtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691199The 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 508991. 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.