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South Ripley, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Maysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41034. It stands on Beasley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maysville West quadrangle.

South Ripley within Mason County

On record in South Ripley

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 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.

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 Ripley between 1997 and 2003, burning about 3 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
10 March 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of South Ripley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Maysville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Mason County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South Ripley in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
July 2025Flash FloodSouth Ripley$30,000Southern sections of the Lees Creek Road sustained partial washouts and had debris pile up with rushing water.
July 2025Flash FloodSouth Ripley$5,000Rushing water deposited debris over Marly Ingles Highway, north of Ripley Road and south of Tuckahoe Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSouth Ripley$5,000Several trees fell onto State Route 8, closing the road.
April 2011Flash FloodSouth Ripley$2,000Water was flowing rapidly over roadways due to heavy rainfall.
October 2014HailSouth Ripley-Hail reported near the intersection of Tuckahoe Road and Minerva Tuckahoe Road.

Every storm recorded in Mason 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
Dover1.9 miles12
Minerva4.2 miles10
Moranburg5.3 miles13
Fernleaf6.7 miles10
Country Club Heights7.9 miles13
Simon Kenton Acres (historical)8.1 miles13
Shawnee Hill (historical)8.3 miles13
Dexter (historical)8.4 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509098. 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.