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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1935 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Bobtown quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
20 since 1998Regional 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 burning | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 6.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 April 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 March 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 March 2001 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somerset Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 2011Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar Hill | - | A tree was reported down southwest of the Shopville Community. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar Hill | - | A tree was blown down near Somerset. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Sugar Hill | - | Quarter size hail was reported along Grundy Rd 2 miles northeast of Somerset. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Sugar Hill | - | The hail was the size of quarters. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Sugar Hill | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grundy | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| Barnesburg | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Somerset | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Mark | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Ruth | 3.9 miles | 11 | |
| Dabney | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Piney Grove | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Coin | 4.1 miles | 9 |
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.




