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Weston, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the East Crittenden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42064. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Repton quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Weston within Crittenden County

On record in Weston

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 23 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

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Weston between 1995 and 2019, burning about 72 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOWNA STORE ROAD
18 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreShawnee National ForestPINE
17 April 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresShawnee National ForestPENNELL
4 March 2017Debris and open burning4.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMT ZION CHURCH ROAD
4 March 2010Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Weston: 9 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Union Sand Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Cave In Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marion Mine & MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Ainsworth MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Cook MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Frayser WorkingsFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite
Frayser WorkingsFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Rogers MineFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite
Rogers MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Winn MineFluorine-FluoritePast ProducerFluorite

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWeston$4,000One tree and several large limbs were blown down across State Route 365, about four miles from U.S. Highway 60.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWeston$2,000At least a couple trees were uprooted or snapped along the Union County line between Route 60 and the Ohio River. Kentucky Route 120 was closed for over an hour by a fallen tree.
April 2015HailWeston-Nickel-size hail fell near the Union County line, about five miles southwest of Sturgis.

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Fords Ferry2.1 miles23
Baker (historical)3.4 miles23
Bells Mine (historical)3.7 miles24
Hebron (historical)4.5 miles23
Hoods4.6 miles23
Stone (historical)4.7 miles23
Rosebud (historical)4.9 miles13
Mattoon5.5 miles23

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 WestonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16903192The 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 516282. 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.