BlockSparrow, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Southwest Anderson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40012. It lies near Love Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Chaplin quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Chaplin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Chaplin quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Elizabethtown quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sparrow between 2001 and 2002, burning about 21 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sparrow in 1 storm report in 2008: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sparrow | - | Several trees were downed 5 miles northeast of Chaplin on Bardstown Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnsonville | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Fairview | 2.8 miles | 9 | |
| Klondyke | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Van Buren | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Jefferies (historical) | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Ashbrook | 5.6 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Grove (historical) | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Sinai | 6.9 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509103. 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.