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Sherburne, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41041. It stands on Two Mile Run. The Survey maps it on the Sherburne quadrangle.

Sherburne within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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

9 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Sherburne between 1999 and 2017, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2016Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNORTH CONVICT RD
20 February 2017Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILLIAMS RD
8 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 November 2017Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKISER BRANCH
15 November 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 October 2016Recreation and ceremony7.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILLIAMS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sherburne in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2000Thunderstorm WindSherburne$2,000Strong winds removed shingles from one home and damaged a barn roof. Several large trees were also blown down.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSherburne-The Highway Department reported that large tree limbs were removed along KY-11 near mile marker 1 in Sheburne, KY.
June 2011HailSherburne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Concord2.5 miles6
Olive Branch3.0 miles6
Locust3.8 miles10
Tilton5.0 miles6
Battle Run5.2 miles6
Hill Top5.8 miles6
Sunset6.0 miles10
Bald Hill7.0 miles10

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 SherburneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197740The 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 503354. 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.