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Sunnydale, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Hartford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42347. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle.

Sunnydale within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

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 Sunnydale between 1998 and 2011, burning about 151 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2001Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio 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 Sunnydale: 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
Sulphur Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnydale in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 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
October 2017Thunderstorm WindSunnydale$30,000Law enforcement reported damage to a few houses.

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Sulphur Springs2.3 miles13
Jingo2.7 miles11
Dukehurst2.7 miles13
Dundee2.9 miles13
Combs Ford3.0 miles13
Taffy4.0 miles13
Adaburg4.1 miles13
Magan4.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509163. 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.