BlockWendover, Kentucky
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hyden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41749. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hyden East quadrangle. It stands 906 feet above sea level.
On record in Wendover
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.
WendoverNational Historic Landmark · listed 1975 · 0.2 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1916 USGS Hyden quadrangle1:48000
- 1919 USGS Hyden quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Hyden East quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Hyden East quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
- 1980 USGS Hyden East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
203 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Wendover between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,014 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 53 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 55 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 799 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 20 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 12 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 August 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendover in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wendover | $50,000 | Dispatch reported utility lines were blown down and onto U.S. Highway 421 near Wendover, resulting in a 3 car pileup. |
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wendover | $10,000 | A tree fell on a garage on Wendover Rd. |
| December 2013 | Flood | Wendover | $1,000 | Portions of town were under water. |
| February 2021 | Flash Flood | Wendover | $500 | Sections of Camp Creek Road along Camp Creek near Wendover-Hurricane Creek Road are flooded and impassable. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wendover | - | Dispatch relayed a report of a downed pine tree on Wendover Road southwest of Hyden. |
| June 2018 | Flood | Wendover | - | A local media outlet reported water over a low lying roadway in the Camp Creek community near Wendover. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wendover | - | Downed trees were blocking both lanes of Wendover Road. Trees had also been blown down and onto Hurricane Creek Rd and Camp Creek Road. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wendover | - | Trees and limbs were blown down and led to downed power lines and power outages in the Wendover area and other locations in Leslie county. |
| April 2000 | Flash Flood | Wendover | - | Very heavy rain produced flash flooding across the county. Hurricane Road near Wendover was under water. HWY-3427 near Raccoon Creek was under water, as well as, the road at the Cutshin Creek intersection of Meeting House Road. Bridges were also reported under water across the area. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyden | 2.4 miles | 14 | |
| Stinnett | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Hoskinston | 3.7 miles | 14 | |
| Cinda | 3.8 miles | 14 | |
| Toulouse | 3.9 miles | 14 | |
| Smilax | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Wooton | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Thousandsticks | 5.4 miles | 15 |
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 Wendover | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q21072737 | 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 516270. 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.