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Sharon Grove, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Kirkmansville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42280. It stands on Steward Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sharon Grove quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Sharon Grove within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Sharon Grove between 2003 and 2016, burning about 25 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
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
18 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHED FIRE
12 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry1 MILE SPOT
9 October 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 October 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 October 2007Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon Grove in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindSharon Grove$9,000Several large trees were uprooted. Large branches were blown down. This event occurred near the community of Claymour.
December 2019Flash FloodSharon Grove$5,000A vehicle was stranded in high water near Sharon Grove.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindSharon Grove$5,000At Sharon Grove, a barn was destroyed, and the roof of a house was damaged. Near Trenton, trees were down along Highway 104.
October 2020Thunderstorm WindSharon Grove$2,000Trees were down over the roadway.
October 2020HailSharon Grove-The hail was reported near the intersection of Highways 178 and 106.
February 2011Heavy RainSharon Grove-A spotter reported storm-total rainfall of 2.80 inches.
April 2011Flash FloodSharon Grove-About ten roads were closed, including several in the Sharon Grove area.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindSharon Grove-Estimated by a co-operative observer.
April 2011HailSharon Grove-no account filed
April 2007HailSharon Grove-no account filed
June 2006HailSharon Grove-no account filed
May 2004HailSharon Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Claymour2.0 miles7
Cedar Grove3.4 miles7
Ashbury (historical)4.2 miles7
Liberty5.3 miles7
Wilhelmina5.8 miles7
Clifty6.3 miles7
Allegre6.4 miles7
Mount Tabor7.2 miles7

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 Sharon GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17492335The 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 503258. 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.