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Spring Hill, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clinton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42031. The Survey maps it on the Clinton quadrangle.

Spring Hill within Hickman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

15 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 2005 and 2018, burning about 106 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOWERLINE
4 September 2010Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAVIS ROAD
20 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGRUBBS ROA
16 June 2015Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOMBINE
19 March 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 February 2009Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 February 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHARPER HAMS
26 February 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPRINGHILL RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hickman County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
August 2005Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$15,000A portion of the roof was blown off a house. A window of a house next door was blown out.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$10,000Doors on farms were damaged.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill$10,000Several trees were blown down or damaged. One downed tree fell through the roof of a trailer on Highway 1362.
February 2022Flash FloodSpring Hill-U.S. Highway 51 was closed near Cane Creek. Parallel routes to this section of Highway 51 were also flooded, eliminating any practical detour.
June 2008HailSpring Hill-The hail persisted for several minutes and was accompanied by strong wind gusts up to 50 mph.
April 2006HailSpring Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hickman 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
New Cypress2.4 miles10
Tar Heel2.6 miles18
New Chapel (historical)3.1 miles18
Old Cypress3.9 miles10
Midway (historical)4.1 miles18
Moss (historical)4.3 miles18
Bugg4.8 miles10
Clinton5.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 504141. 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.