Sulphur, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the New Castle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40070. It stands on Fallen Timber Creek. The Survey maps it on the Smithfield quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Sulphur within Henry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1932 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Smithfield quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1986 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur between 2000 and 2004, burning about 360 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 April 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 March 2001	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 March 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 October 2004	Arson/incendiarism	354 acres	Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge	TARGET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulphur in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulphur	$150,000	Straight line winds blew the roof off a home. One business and a mobile home had extensive damage. Several mobile homes received some minor damage. Numerous trees and power lines were downed.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulphur	-	Trees were blown down and blocking traffic on Highway 146 between Pendleton and New Castle. The fire department responded.
July 2015	Flash Flood	Sulphur	-	Several inches of rain from an intense line of thunderstorms resulted in flash flooding and high water across the Sulphur area. Local media reported water rescues occurred as a result.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulphur	-	The Henry County Department of Highways reported several trees down in the area from severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2014	Flash Flood	Sulphur	-	Local law enforcement reported that State Highway 1606, located just west of Campbellsburg within the flood plain of the Little Kentucky River, was flooded in several locations.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Sulphur	-	Trees and power lines were blown down in Sulphur.
December 2007	Flood	Sulphur	-	Water was over parts of Kentucky Highway 997.
May 2005	Hail	Sulphur	-	no account filed
February 2002	Hail	Sulphur	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henry 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sligo	2.1 miles	13
Pendleton	2.7 miles	13
Campbellsburg	4.3 miles	7
Tarascon	6.1 miles	13
Jericho	6.3 miles	13
New Castle	6.9 miles	10
Turners Station	7.0 miles	7
Smithfield	7.5 miles	13

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.

Wikipedia article on Sulphur	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7636503	The 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 504723. 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.