Visalia, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Piner-Visalia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41015. It stands on Steep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Alexandria quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Visalia within Kenton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Alexandria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Visalia between 2010 and 2012, burning about 68 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 ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	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
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	53 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KLEIN FIRE
23 October 2012	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RECTOR RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Visalia: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Brush Creek Clay	Clay	Prospect
	Silver Grove Yard	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ryland	1.9 miles	13
White Villa	2.6 miles	13
Staffordsburg	2.8 miles	11
Lamb	2.8 miles	13
Ryland Heights	2.9 miles	13
Grant	3.3 miles	13
Kenton	3.3 miles	11
White Tower	3.5 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Visalia	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1864815	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 506069. 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.