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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 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.
- 1952 USGS Preston quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Preston quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
25 since 2001Regional 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/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 April 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 April 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 April 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 April 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 599 |
| 9 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 March 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 March 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2020Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Hail | Upper Spencer | - | NWS Employee observed 1 inch hail at their house, just north of Jeffersonville and west of the community of Hope. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Spencer | - | A tree was blown down around the intersection of Bedford and Town Branch roads. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Spencer | - | Large tree limbs were blown down at the intersection of Spring Meadows Drive and Town Branch Road near Oggs Station. |
| January 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Spencer | - | Law enforcement reported a large branch blown down on Spencer Road near the intersection of McCormick Road north of Jeffersonville. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Upper Spencer | - | An NWS Employee observed the top of a 10 inch diameter cherry tree snap off north of Jeffersonville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Village (historical) | 0.2 miles | 8 | |
| Lower Spencer | 0.4 miles | 8 | |
| Antioch Church (historical) | 1.3 miles | 8 | |
| Howards Mill | 2.3 miles | 8 | |
| Walkers Crossing (historical) | 2.6 miles | 8 | |
| Camargo | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Jeffersonville | 3.9 miles | 12 | |
| Hope | 4.0 miles | 8 |
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 Q122558289 | 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 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.




