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Shrewsbury, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Caneyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42721. The Survey maps it on the Caneyville quadrangle.

Shrewsbury within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Shrewsbury between 1997 and 2010, burning about 380 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
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
2 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Equipment and vehicle use50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Debris and open burning182 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 November 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shrewsbury in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025HailShrewsbury-Quarter sized hail was reported south of Shrewsbury.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindShrewsbury-A law enforcement official reported a barn and tree were blown down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015HailShrewsbury-The public reported nickel size hail.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindShrewsbury-The county's emergency manager reported a tree down on Highway 1133 near Blowtown Road.
January 2006HailShrewsbury-no account filed
May 2000HailShrewsbury-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Windyville2.2 miles13
Sadler3.0 miles13
Peth3.4 miles12
South3.6 miles13
Ready4.6 miles13
Millwood4.9 miles12
Black Rock5.9 miles13
Caneyville6.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503466. 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.