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Wilsonville, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40422. It lies near Tennessee Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Parksville quadrangle.

Wilsonville within Boyle County

On record in Wilsonville

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 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wilsonville between 1998 and 2019, burning about 148 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREYNOLDS HOLLOW
26 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance75 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRANGE FIRE
1 April 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOWEN
29 November 1998Misuse of fire by a minor30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 November 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyle County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilsonville in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWilsonville-The Boyle County KY Mesonet site recorded a gust of 59 mph.

Every storm recorded in Boyle 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
Parksville0.8 miles10
Alum Springs2.0 miles11
Mitchellsburg3.9 miles10
Atoka3.9 miles14
Needmore4.0 miles11
Davis Hill4.3 miles14
Junction City4.5 miles11
Shelby City5.3 miles11

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 WilsonvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197749The 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 506917. 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.