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Shultztown, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beaver Dam census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42320. It stands on Slaty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cromwell quadrangle.

Shultztown within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

31 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Shultztown between 1999 and 2014, burning about 2,134 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1,400 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined400 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shultztown in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
June 2019HailShultztown-Social Media reported quarter size hail fell in southern Ohio County.

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Highview1.0 miles12
Cool Springs2.3 miles12
Prentiss2.9 miles12
Wysox3.9 miles12
Cromwell4.2 miles12
Oak Grove5.7 miles12
Nineteen6.3 miles12
Select6.8 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q122555500The 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 509053. 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.