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South Park, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Pond Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40118. It stands on Little Bee Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooks quadrangle.

South Park within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of South Park between 1997 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRDALE HIGH FIRE
7 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2011Natural11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEARCAMP RD. FIRE
7 March 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Park: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Coral RidgeClayProducer
Okolona QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Park in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 1 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSouth Park$5,000The public reported a tree was split and leaning on power lines.
May 2010FloodSouth Park-National Turnpike at the Gene Snyder Freeway was closed due to standing water. National Turnpike was also closed at Outer Loop.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Fairdale0.8 miles20
Newtown (historical)1.1 miles18
Coral Ridge1.2 miles17
Hollyvilla1.3 miles17
South Park View1.4 miles17
Heritage Creek1.7 miles17
Auburndale2.5 miles18
Knopp2.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503963. 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.