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Upper Spencer, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Mount Sterling census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40353. It stands on Harpers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Preston quadrangle.

Upper Spencer within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

25 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Upper Spencer between 2001 and 2018, burning about 89 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/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
13 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 599
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

5 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Upper Spencer in 5 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2024HailUpper Spencer-NWS Employee observed 1 inch hail at their house, just north of Jeffersonville and west of the community of Hope.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindUpper Spencer-A tree was blown down around the intersection of Bedford and Town Branch roads.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindUpper Spencer-Large tree limbs were blown down at the intersection of Spring Meadows Drive and Town Branch Road near Oggs Station.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindUpper Spencer-Law enforcement reported a large branch blown down on Spencer Road near the intersection of McCormick Road north of Jeffersonville.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindUpper Spencer-An NWS Employee observed the top of a 10 inch diameter cherry tree snap off north of Jeffersonville.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Spencer Village (historical)0.2 miles8
Lower Spencer0.4 miles8
Antioch Church (historical)1.3 miles8
Howards Mill2.3 miles8
Walkers Crossing (historical)2.6 miles8
Camargo3.3 miles12
Jeffersonville3.9 miles12
Hope4.0 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122558289The 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 505904. 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.