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South Higginsport, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41002. It stands on Little Bracken Creek. The Survey maps it on the Higginsport quadrangle.

South Higginsport within Bracken County

On record in South Higginsport

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of South Higginsport between 1997 and 2012, burning about 4 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 burning2

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
3 April 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 February 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of South Higginsport: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Brown County Engineer Lms. QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
White Oak Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cedron StoneSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Maysville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ruggles Stone Company PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Ruggles Stone Company Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Higginsport in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Higginsport$4,000Trees and power lines were knocked down on Dover Rd off of Route 8.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindSouth Higginsport$3,000A few trees were downed along State Route 8.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSouth Higginsport$2,000Two trees were knocked down on Route 8.
April 2025FloodSouth Higginsport-Several roads were closed due to high water, especially in the Augusta area.

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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
Augusta2.1 miles11
Stoney Point2.5 miles12
Chatham5.1 miles8
Gertrude5.4 miles8
Rock Springs6.7 miles11
Wellsburg7.3 miles11
Woolcott7.7 miles8
Bladeston7.9 miles8

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 Q122556477The 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 509095. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.