BlockBefore

Yoder, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the West Spencer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40071. It lies near Anderson Hill. The Survey maps it on the Taylorsville quadrangle.

Yoder within Spencer County

On record in Yoder

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 1 record

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 11 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

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Yoder in 2011, burning about 8 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
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
15 February 2011Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN RIDGE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Spencer 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 Yoder: 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
Spencer County Stone, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Spencer County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yoder in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindYoder-Law enforcement reported a couple of trees down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindYoder-The emergency manager reported trees and two flagpoles were blown down in the storm.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindYoder-A tree was blown down on Yoder Station Road north of Taylorsville.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindYoder-A local official reported a tree down along Brashears Creek Road.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindYoder-A barn was severely damaged on Elk Creek Road one mile south of Highway 55.
March 2017HailYoder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spencer 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
Taylorsville2.0 miles11
Normandy2.6 miles11
Riverhill Farm (historical)2.6 miles11
Elk Creek3.1 miles11
Rivals3.3 miles11
Little Mount5.0 miles11
Waterford5.1 miles12
Zion (historical)5.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509421. 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.