Sligo, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Eminence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40055. The Survey maps it on the Smithfield quadrangle.

Sligo within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1932 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sligo between 2000 and 2001, burning about 6 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 burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 April 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sligo in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2016: 4 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Sligo	$2,000	Trees downed along Highway 42 on the Oldham County Line.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sligo	-	Trees were reported down in the area.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Sligo	-	Downed trees were blocking Highway 42 at Sligo.
April 2010	Hail	Sligo	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sligo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pendleton	1.9 miles	13
Sulphur	2.1 miles	13
Tarascon	5.4 miles	13
Jericho	5.9 miles	13
Campbellsburg	6.3 miles	7
Smithfield	7.7 miles	13
New Castle	8.5 miles	10
Turners Station	9.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503690. 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.