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Sugar Grove, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sugar Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42261. It lies near Hanging Rock. The Survey maps it on the Sugar Grove quadrangle.

Sugar Grove within Butler 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

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Grove between 1997 and 2014, burning about 225 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 1999Debris and open burning26 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDIMPLE RD.
24 March 1997Arson/incendiarism70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 1997Arson/incendiarism80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Grove: 1 prospect, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, 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
Park City Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant
Sugar Grove ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Grove in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindSugar Grove-Trees had to be removed from roadways in the southern part of the county.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSugar Grove-Bowling Green broadcast media reported that a large oak tree was downed near the town of Sugar Grove. Dime sized hail was fell with this storm.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSugar Grove-A store sustained some structural damage.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Needmore1.6 miles14
Dimple3.1 miles14
Sharer3.7 miles14
Flat Rock (historical)4.3 miles14
Carved Rock (historical)4.5 miles14
Davis Crossroads4.8 miles14
Leetown5.4 miles14
Turnertown5.4 miles11

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 Q127613611The 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 509154. 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.