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Vandetta, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Hanson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42413. The Survey maps it on the Hanson quadrangle.

Vandetta within Hopkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Vandetta between 1998 and 2020, burning about 149 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
22 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2010Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hopkins 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 Vandetta: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Jewel City Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hopkins County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vandetta 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 WindVandetta$20,000A microburst with estimated peak winds near 95 mph uprooted a couple dozen trees in a fairly concentrated area. A large tree fell on a house, damaging the gutters and part of the roof overhang. A carport received minor damage. The damage area was about three-quarters of a mile long and one-quarter mile wide. The microburst occurred only about one-half mile east of the Pennyrile Parkway and 1.5 miles from the Webster County line.

Every storm recorded in Hopkins 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
Hanson3.8 miles12
New Salem (historical)4.4 miles14
West Hanson4.6 miles14
Chelsea (historical)5.0 miles14
Oakliff Store (historical)5.7 miles14
Jewel City6.4 miles13
Ashbyburg6.5 miles13
Anton7.0 miles12

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 Q122572936The 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 505976. 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.