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Wilson, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Corydon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42406. The Survey maps it on the Wilson quadrangle.

Wilson within Henderson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 1998 and 2010, burning about 4 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/undetermined1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1

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
28 March 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 October 2010Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUSH HOG
19 October 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilson in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
March 2012HailWilson-Gold ball size hail was reported just north of Wilson.

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Finley Addition2.5 miles18
Geneva2.8 miles17
Corydon3.5 miles14
Rock Springs3.8 miles14
Rankin4.3 miles18
Weaverton4.6 miles18
Cairo5.0 miles14
Henderson5.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509380. 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.