Temperance, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the East Simpson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. The Survey maps it on the Drake quadrangle.

Temperance within Simpson 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Temperance between 1999 and 2012, burning about 22 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2

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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 February 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 November 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WILL PAYNE
26 October 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Simpson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Temperance in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2025	Flash Flood	Temperance	-	Gold City Road bridge was flooded over the Middle Fork of Drakes Creek.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Temperance	-	A tree fell across the road at Harris and Temperance Road.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Temperance	-	Multiple trees were blown down near Temperance.
April 2011	Hail	Temperance	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Simpson 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
Gold City	1.8 miles	14
Hillsdale	2.8 miles	14
Black Jack	4.4 miles	9
Paradise (historical)	4.6 miles	9
Highland	4.9 miles	12
Hop Over (historical)	5.0 miles	12
Hickory Flat	5.0 miles	12
Oak Grove (historical)	5.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509195. 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.