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Solitude, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Shepherdsville Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40165. It stands on Rocky Run. The Survey maps it on the Samuels quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Solitude within Bullitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

26 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Solitude between 1997 and 2012, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
27 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryR J CORMAN FIRE
24 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHIGH GROVE
24 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPORTER FIRE
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullitt County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solitude in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 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
February 2023Flash FloodSolitude-Cedar Grove Road (Kentucky Route 480) had to be closed due to flooding.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSolitude-Trees were reported down.
January 2021FloodSolitude-Kentucky 480 was closed at Woodsdale Road due to flooding.
February 2018FloodSolitude-Kentucky Hwy 480 at mile marker 9-10 was flooded near Woodsdale Road.
November 2011FloodSolitude-Highway 480 at the 10 mile marker was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Bullitt 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
Brownington2.9 miles11
Smithville3.1 miles15
Lotus4.8 miles11
Cedar Grove4.8 miles12
Mount Washington5.3 miles15
Hobbs5.5 miles12
Lick Skillet (historical)6.1 miles12
Ridgetop6.3 miles11

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 SolitudeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7558277The 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 509090. 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.