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Stovall, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cave City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42160. The Survey maps it on the Park City quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Stovall within Barren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Stovall between 2000 and 2012, burning about 92 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2002Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 December 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 November 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMILLSTOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Stovall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Pace QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Barren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stovall in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 lightning. 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 2016LightningStovall$10,000The Barren County emergency manager reported trees down near Stovall Road.

Every storm recorded in Barren 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
Carden1.1 miles13
Oil City2.1 miles13
Park City3.2 miles24
Apple Grove3.3 miles24
Bon Ayr3.4 miles24
Beckton5.2 miles8
Highland Springs5.2 miles22
Merry Oaks5.6 miles24

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 Q7620625The 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 509143. 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.