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Sand Hill, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sand Hill-Girkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green North quadrangle.

Sand Hill within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 1998 and 2018, burning about 261 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
17 September 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHE BRIDGE
6 March 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 1998Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2014Recreation and ceremony60 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOUISVILLE ROAD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Gully ClayClayProspect
Bowling Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bowling Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Hill in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
April 2011FloodSand Hill-Road closures were reported on Miller Rd., John Alford Rd., and Garrett Hollow Rd.
June 2009Tornado (EF1)Sand Hill-The tornado tracked intermittently along a path 18 miles long, with a maximum width of 150 yards. There were several areas along and near the path with evidence of straight line wind damage.||The tornado fist touched down just inside the Warren County line, near the Edmonson County border, about 6.5 miles southwest of Brownsville around 6 pm CST. The tornado traveled roughly along the Warren and Edmonson County lines, doing damage in Warren County. After one mile, the tornado lifted and descended back to the ground about three and a quarter miles later. While it was aloft, significant straight-line wind damage occurred along a 2-mile wide path along both sides of the county line. After descending to the ground again 3.5 miles northwest of Smiths Grove, the tornado remained on the ground for more than 7 miles, doing its last structural damage in the county less than a half mile southwest of Hays around 618 pm CST. ||In Barren County, the tornado passed over mostly rural cropland exhibiting little damage, but destroyed two large barns and damaged a home about 6 miles west of Glasgow in Barren County around 627 pm CST before finally lifting shortly thereafter. . ||This EF-1 tornado produced wind speeds up to 105 mph along its intermittent 18 mile path length. Damage was done to hardwood trees, barns, homes and outbuildings. A well-defined rotation pattern could also be seen in tall grass.
May 2025HailSand Hill-no account filed
March 2020HailSand Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Penns Chapel (historical)2.1 miles15
Anna2.1 miles15
Girkin3.0 miles15
Glenmore4.4 miles14
Richardsville4.5 miles15
Rays Branch (historical)4.8 miles15
Greencastle5.9 miles15
Plum Springs6.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509006. 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.