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Weberstown, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Patesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42348. It lies near Bates Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Pellville quadrangle.

Weberstown within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Weberstown between 1999 and 2017, burning about 110 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
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
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2012Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACKSON FI
11 April 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2013Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPALESVILLE
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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 Weberstown: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Indian Lake Sandstone BluffSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weberstown in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindWeberstown$2,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWeberstown-A large tree was blown down across Kentucky Route 69 near Weberstown.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWeberstown-Several trees were blown down by strong winds along Kentucky Route 144 between Weberstown and Arrington Corner. Some downed trees fell onto power lines.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWeberstown-Trees and power lines were down.
July 2023HailWeberstown-This report was from mPing.
December 2007FloodWeberstown-A few county roads were closed due to high water.
September 2006Thunderstorm WindWeberstown-Several trees were downed.

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Arrington Corner1.6 miles14
Floral2.0 miles17
Pellville2.2 miles17
Goering2.3 miles17
Patesville3.3 miles14
Roseville3.9 miles12
Sanders4.1 miles11
Scuffletown (historical)4.3 miles14

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 Q122539406The 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 509330. 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.