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Turnertown, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sugar Grove census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Quality quadrangle.

Turnertown within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Turnertown between 1997 and 2014, burning about 79 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryANDERSON STORE
24 March 2014Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDIMPLE RD.
24 March 2001Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 November 1997Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 October 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Turnertown: 1 plant. 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
Park City Quarry & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenPlant

Every working recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turnertown in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTurnertown-Local law enforcement reported trees and power lines down.

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Davis Crossroads1.2 miles14
Flat Rock (historical)1.2 miles14
Boston2.4 miles11
Toy Spring (historical)2.8 miles11
Dimple3.6 miles14
Townsville (historical)4.4 miles11
Quality4.7 miles11
Sharer5.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509250. 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.