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Willailla, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40409. It stands on Dorman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Maretburg quadrangle.

Willailla within Rockcastle County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Willailla between 1998 and 2011, burning about 355 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
8 September 2007Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Rockcastle County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Willailla in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWillailla$10,000A tree was blow down onto a home in the 6300 block of Willailla Road in Brodhead, KY.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindWillailla$5,000A citizen observed damage on Straight Lane Road southwest of Brodhead. This includes a trampoline blown up into power lines, several trees downed, and a driver blown into a fence subsequently damaging their truck.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindWillailla$1,000A tree was blown down in Willailla.
January 2022Heavy RainWillailla-A CoCoRaHS observer 7 miles SSW of Brodhead measured 4.52 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindWillailla-A tree was blown down along Old Bandy Road.
June 2021Heavy RainWillailla-Site KY-RC-2 (Broadhead 7.3 SSW) measured 2.87 inches of rainfall in a 24-hour period.
October 2014HailWillailla-Quarter size hail was reported.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindWillailla-Several trees were blown down in a swath about two tenths of a mile wide, just across the Pulaski County line.

Every storm recorded in Rockcastle 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
Quail1.6 miles15
Level Green2.5 miles15
Wabd3.9 miles15
Ottawa4.0 miles15
Spiro4.3 miles15
Maretburg5.3 miles15
Hansford5.5 miles16
Sand Springs5.5 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509372. 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.