BlockWoodstock, Kentucky
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Eubank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42567. It stands on Cowpen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1952 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
11 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Woodstock between 1999 and 2019, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 March 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 19 March 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WOODHAVEN DRIVE |
| 26 February 2000 | Smoking | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 21 December 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 26 November 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodstock in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodstock | $25,000 | A trained spotter and dispatch reported trees downed along Kentucky Highway 39 between Woodstock and Bandy. Near Bandy, Kentucky Highway 70 had a tree downed near it while another tree was blown down onto a trailer with a barn being knocked down as well. |
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodstock | $1,000 | A tree was blown down in Woodstock along KY Hwy 39. |
| June 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodstock | - | A tree was reported down near the Woodstock Community. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodstock | - | Trees down across Sunnyside Church Road near Ocalo and across Highway 934. |
| November 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Woodstock | - | Several trees were down. |
| February 2012 | Hail | Woodstock | - | no account filed |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509407. 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.