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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1922 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:62500
- 1923 USGS Brownsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000
- 1993 USGS Bowling Green North quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
18 since 1998Regional 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 ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 April 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 April 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 2018 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | THE BRIDGE |
| 6 March 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 March 1998 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 22 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 60 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | LOUISVILLE ROAD FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
3 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gully Clay | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Bowling Green Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Bowling Green Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Flood | Sand Hill | - | Road closures were reported on Miller Rd., John Alford Rd., and Garrett Hollow Rd. |
| June 2009 | Tornado (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 2025 | Hail | Sand Hill | - | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Hail | Sand Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penns Chapel (historical) | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Anna | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Girkin | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Glenmore | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Richardsville | 4.5 miles | 15 | |
| Rays Branch (historical) | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Greencastle | 5.9 miles | 15 | |
| Plum Springs | 6.0 miles | 15 |
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.









