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Touristville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Mill Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Hoozer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mill Springs quadrangle.

Touristville within Wayne County

On record in Touristville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

20 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Touristville between 2002 and 2019, burning about 207 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIMPERIAL
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 February 2013Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHOMPSON RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Touristville in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 1 hail, 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindTouristville-A tree was reported down across Hwy-1619.
April 2012HailTouristville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Mill Springs1.0 miles14
Betsey1.8 miles11
Steubenville3.4 miles14
Frazer3.7 miles11
Hardwick3.8 miles11
Rankin4.1 miles14
Spann5.1 miles14
Kidder5.9 miles11

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 TouristvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18353689The 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 509224. 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.