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Sand Hill, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cumberland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40823. It stands on Smith Branch. The Survey maps it on the Louellen quadrangle.

Sand Hill within Harlan County

On record in Sand 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 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

10 surveys from 23 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

112 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 14,534 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
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
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning125 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE SHEPHERD TRAIL
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHUCK FIRE
21 June 2002Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySANDHILL
7 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined190 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sand Hill: 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Hurricane Gap QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hurricane Gap Sand PitSilicaProspect
Orebank RidgeIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Hill in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2020: 2 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
February 2020FloodSand Hill$5,000,000A local newspaper and citizens reported a couple of mobile homes being swept into the Cumberland River outside of Harlan as the river overspilled its banks. Approximately 70 homes were reported to have been impacted by flood waters across the county. Various streets, especially northeast of Harlan, were closed due to flood waters, including Kentucky Highway 413 from U.S. Highway 421 to Kentucky Highway 522. Portions of U.S. Highway 119 were also closed around Loyall and Baxter near the Cumberland River as major flood stage was reached. This forced the closure of flood gates in Harlan.
January 2013FloodSand Hill-Water was reported across Hwy 160 southwest of Cumberland.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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
Chad0.9 miles23
Cumberland1.0 miles20
Clutts1.9 miles20
Hiram2.2 miles23
Blair3.0 miles20
Benham3.2 miles20
Clover3.9 miles20
Dione4.5 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 515216. 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.