Turkeytown, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Crab Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. It lies near Millers Knob. The Survey maps it on the Brodhead quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1893 USGS London quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS London quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Brodhead quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
60 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Turkeytown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turkeytown in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turkeytown | $50,000 | A porch and part of a roof was torn off of a home. An outbuilding was flattened, and a cattle trailer was overturned. Fifteen to twenty trees were downed along a quarter mile stretch of Edwards Road. Winds were estimated at 90 to 95 mph by a NWS remote survey. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turkeytown | $30,000 | A roof was torn off of a double-wide mobile home and thrown southeast. The resident stated winds lasted for 2 to 3 minutes. NWS remote survey estimated winds at 90 mph. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Turkeytown | - | A tree fell down along Kentucky Route 39, south of Crab Orchard. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holdams Mill (historical) | 1.0 miles | 12 | |
| Peoples Corner (historical) | 2.0 miles | 7 | |
| Gentontown (historical) | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Thompson Store (historical) | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Chapel Gap (historical) | 2.9 miles | 7 | |
| Dog Walk | 3.1 miles | 7 | |
| Crab Orchard | 3.2 miles | 7 | |
| Cedar Creek (historical) | 3.5 miles | 7 |
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 Turkeytown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7855190 | 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 509246. 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.





