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Steubenville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Boston Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mill Springs quadrangle.

Steubenville within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Steubenville between 1998 and 2016, burning about 560 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2000Debris and open burning18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steubenville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 6 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
October 2009Thunderstorm WindSteubenville$15,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Steubenville and Conley Bottom.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindSteubenville$10,000Strong winds damaged roof of Methodist Church in Steubenville on KY 3106.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindSteubenville$2,000A tree was blown down and across a home on the corner of Kings Highway and Old Highway 90.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindSteubenville$1,000Tree blown down onto a power line approximately 1 mile southwest of Steubenville leading to local power outages.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindSteubenville-Multiple trees and power lines were blown down.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindSteubenville-Trees were reported down on Green Briar Loop.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Rankin2.8 miles14
Spann3.0 miles14
Mill Springs3.3 miles14
Betsey3.4 miles11
Touristville3.4 miles14
Eadsville4.6 miles14
Monticello4.7 miles14
Swifton5.6 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 504353. 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.