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Sugar Hill, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42503. It stands on Sugar Hill Knob. The Survey maps it on the Bobtown quadrangle.

Sugar Hill within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Hill between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,704 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
28 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 April 2001Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Sugar Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Somerset QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar Hill in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2021: 3 hail, 2 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSugar Hill-A tree was reported down southwest of the Shopville Community.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSugar Hill-A tree was blown down near Somerset.
March 2011HailSugar Hill-Quarter size hail was reported along Grundy Rd 2 miles northeast of Somerset.
March 2011HailSugar Hill-The hail was the size of quarters.
May 2016HailSugar Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Grundy1.7 miles9
Barnesburg1.8 miles9
Somerset3.6 miles11
Mark3.6 miles9
Ruth3.9 miles11
Dabney3.9 miles9
Piney Grove4.0 miles14
Coin4.1 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509156. 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.