BlockWest Brook, Kentucky
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hopkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42240. It stands on North Fork Little River. The Survey maps it on the Church Hill quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Church Hill quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Church Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Church Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Hopkinsville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of West Brook between 2007 and 2009, burning about 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 August 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 April 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of West Brook: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay, Graphite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dalton Brick-Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Pembroke Quarry | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Superior Graphite/Hopkinsville, Ky. | Graphite | Unknown | ||
| Christian Quarries, Inc. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| U.S. 41a Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Brook in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2020 | Flood | West Brook | - | Minor flooding occurred along the Little River. Some street flooding occurred. Farmland was inundated. |
| February 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Brook | - | A wind gust to 77 mph was measured by trained spotters around the Highway 68/80 by-pass on the east side of town. A wind gust to 65 mph was measured nearby on the south side of Hopkinsville. |
| September 2011 | Hail | West Brook | - | Dime-size hail occurred just south of Hopkinsville along the Pennyrile Parkway at Highway 1613. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cox Mill (historical) | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Church Hill | 3.2 miles | 9 | |
| Masonville | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Beverly | 3.4 miles | 9 | |
| Canton Pike | 3.6 miles | 9 | |
| Casky | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Merrittstown | 4.3 miles | 9 | |
| Hopkinsville | 4.4 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509340. 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.