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Vertrees, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Summit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42724. It stands on Vertrees Creek. The Survey maps it on the Constantine quadrangle.

Vertrees within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

28 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Vertrees between 2002 and 2020, burning about 292 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
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST. JOHNS FIRE
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony65 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOM DUVALL LANE
2 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAINT JOHN'S
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH GRANDVIEW CHURCH ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vertrees in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindVertrees$15,000A large tree fell on power lines and completely blocked Hardinsburg Road near the 12000 block.
May 2016HailVertrees-In addition to the hail, 40 to 45 mph wind gusts were observed.
May 2016HailVertrees-no account filed
September 2000Thunderstorm WindVertrees-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Howe Valley2.5 miles17
Four Corners4.4 miles17
Perryville5.1 miles17
Pierce Mill5.2 miles18
Solway5.7 miles18
Franklin Cross Roads6.6 miles17
Stephensburg7.9 miles18
Limp7.9 miles18

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 Q122551176The 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 509283. 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.