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Stephensburg, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cecilia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42724. It stands on Blacks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Summit quadrangle.

Stephensburg within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Stephensburg between 1999 and 2013, burning about 290 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/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
6 September 1999Smoking201 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 June 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2013Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEASTVIEW BARRENS FIRE
9 March 2010Smoking4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJAMES DUVALL FIRE
1 March 2002Railroad operations and maintenance45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Stephensburg: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
No. 3 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Big Clifty Sandstone ExposureSilicaProspect
Eastview Abandoned Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Railroad Overpass Sandstone OutcropSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stephensburg in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2009Thunderstorm WindStephensburg$3,000Trees were downed and a small outbuilding flipped over.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindStephensburg$1,500no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindStephensburg-Trees were blown down along Long Grove Road near Stephensburg.
April 2011Flash FloodOld Stephensburg-Hardin county EMS reported flooding on the 9900 block of Leitchfield Rd. southwest of Elizabethtown. Water was flowing and 1.5 to 2 feet deep.
May 2006Flash FloodStephensburg-The intersection of highways 62 and 84 was flooded.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Old Stephensburg0.7 miles18
Hansbrough1.5 miles17
Star Mills2.7 miles14
Franklin Cross Roads3.1 miles17
Eastview3.2 miles18
White Mills Junction3.4 miles18
Cecilia4.4 miles17
Harcourt4.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 504342. 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.