Winston Hills, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Covington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41015. It stands on Banklick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Winston Hills within Kenton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1898 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500
1914 USGS East Cincinnati quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1952 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1983 USGS Newport quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Cincinnati quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Winston Hills (historical) between 2010 and 2018, burning about 45 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
19 March 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	INDEPENDENCE RAILROAD
2 November 2010	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHERBOURNE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kenton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sunny Acres	0.5 miles	19
Cloud City (historical)	1.0 miles	18
DeCoursey	1.0 miles	19
Forest Hills	1.1 miles	18
Winston Park	1.5 miles	18
Fairview	1.6 miles	13
Taylor Mill	1.7 miles	13
Latonia	2.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2557852. 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.