BlockSharpsville, Kentucky
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Willisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40330. It stands on Traces Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cardwell quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 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.
- 1953 USGS Cardwell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sharpsville between 2002 and 2004, burning about 125 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/undetermined | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 February 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharpsville in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2008: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Sharpsville | 1 hurt, $10,000 | A resident observed a funnel cloud before taking shelter. The tornado blew in his back door, shattering the glass. The man was injured by flying glass. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsville | - | Trees were downed across the northeast portion of Washington 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seaville | 2.5 miles | 9 | |
| Cardwell | 2.8 miles | 7 | |
| Hickory Grove (historical) | 2.9 miles | 7 | |
| Tablow | 2.9 miles | 7 | |
| Tatham Springs | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Pulliam | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Willisburg | 4.4 miles | 8 | |
| Battle | 5.7 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509042. 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.