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Stinnettsville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40146. It lies near High Burning Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle.

Stinnettsville within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

27 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Stinnettsville between 1999 and 2018, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTERRETT RD. FIRE
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLUE FORK ROAD
7 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 60 FIRE
11 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2012Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1073

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stinnettsville in 1 storm report in 2022: 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
March 2022Thunderstorm WindStinnettsville-Power lines were down in Thornhill Estates.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Graysville0.8 miles16
Hensley1.6 miles16
Rosetta2.2 miles16
Garfield2.6 miles16
Woodrow2.8 miles11
Custer4.1 miles11
Basin Spring4.2 miles16
Corners4.3 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122553729The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509133. 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.