BlockStone, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lancaster census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40444. It stands on Scotch Fork. The Survey maps it on the Buckeye quadrangle.
On record in Stone
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Walden Placelisted 1985 · 0.9 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 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.
- 1905 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1952 USGS Buckeye quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Harrodsburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
6 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Stone between 1999 and 2019, burning about 47 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 April 2009 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 March 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 33 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WILDLIFE LN |
| 14 March 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | TOM DORMAN |
| 5 November 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 November 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | DRY BRANCH |
| 6 October 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BACK CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Stone | - | Trees were blown down across Poor Ridge Pike near Sad Lane. |
| March 2015 | Flood | Stone | - | Sugar Creek overflowed, briefly closing State Highway 1971. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye | 2.3 miles | 10 | |
| Three Forks | 3.0 miles | 10 | |
| Judson | 3.1 miles | 10 | |
| Teatersville | 3.4 miles | 10 | |
| Mount Hebron (historical) | 3.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bourne | 3.8 miles | 10 | |
| McCreary | 4.3 miles | 10 | |
| Camp Nelson (historical) | 4.7 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509136. 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.