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Windyville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brownsville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42210. It lies near Shipley Knob. The Survey maps it on the Brownsville quadrangle. It stands 758 feet above sea level.

Windyville within Edmonson County

On record in Windyville

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

8 surveys from 13 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

22 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Windyville between 1998 and 2018, burning about 597 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPINKS CEMETERY FIRE
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use400 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMammoth Cave National ParkTAURUS
8 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Windyville: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Gully ClayClayProspect
Vincent Prospect PitFire Clay (Refractory)Prospect

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windyville in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2007Thunderstorm WindWindyville$10,000An outbuilding and a home damaged in Windyville.
February 2019Flash FloodWindyville-Road was closed due to flooding.
December 2007FloodWindyville-High water from heavy rains made Kentucky highway 655 impassable between mile markers two and three.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindWindyville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Lindseyville2.1 miles13
Asphalt2.2 miles13
Black Gold3.0 miles13
Huff3.2 miles13
Segal3.3 miles14
Brownsville3.4 miles13
Sweeden3.5 miles13
Woodside4.1 miles13

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 WindyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8024870The 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 509383. 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.