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Woodlawn, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bardstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40004. It stands on Riddle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maud quadrangle.

Woodlawn within Nelson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Woodlawn between 2000 and 2010, burning about 17 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 March 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2010Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nelson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Woodlawn: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Nelson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Nelson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodlawn in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
February 2008Tornado (EF2)Woodlawn2 hurt, $250,000The tornado destroyed or heavily damaage two shop buildings at a construction company. A couple trailers on the company site were rolled over. Farther along the tornado's path, it knocked a mobile home off the foundation, and rolled it over two nearby cars. Two occupants of the mobile home were injured.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn$2,000A barn was damaged and several trees were downed.
June 2025Flash FloodWoodlawn-Water was flowing over Tom Greer Road.
February 2018FloodWoodlawn-Significant flooding occurred on portions of Highway 62 and 162 west of Bloomfield. Schools operated on a 2 hour delay until flood waters could recede.
April 2015HailWoodlawn-Half dollar size hail was reported east of Bardstown, near Woodlawn, by a trained spotter.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-A Coop observer reported several trees down. A county dispatcher confirmed that power lines were down and several homes were stuck by lightning.
September 2010Heavy RainWoodlawn-A COOP observer measured 3.8 inches of rain.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindWoodlawn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nelson 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
Needmore (historical)2.3 miles9
East Bardstown2.7 miles9
Botland2.8 miles9
Humphrey (historical)3.2 miles9
Beech Fork (historical)3.5 miles9
Sol Bloom (historical)4.2 miles9
Bardstown5.4 miles9
South Bardstown (historical)5.6 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q49370980The 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 507104. 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.