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Waverly Hills, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Pond Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40272. It lies near Round Knob. The Survey maps it on the Valley Station quadrangle.

Waverly Hills within Jefferson County

On record in Waverly Hills

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Waverly Hills between 2000 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRDALE HIGH FIRE
22 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2011Natural11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEARCAMP RD. FIRE
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 November 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 November 2010Recreation and ceremony17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLEVINS GAP
8 January 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Prairie Village0.8 miles20
Johnsontown1.1 miles20
Valley1.7 miles20
Valley Gardens1.7 miles20
Pleasure Ridge Park1.7 miles18
Valley Station1.8 miles20
Valley Downs1.8 miles20
Penile2.2 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 506303. 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.