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Kentuck, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Munford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36268. It stands on Kentuck Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Kentuck within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Kentuck between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,968 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 50 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
Arson/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning31
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural9
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1997Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaBREEZY
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaFIRE BALL
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-13
13 September 1999Natural10 acresNational Forests in Alabama4-WHEELER
13 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaPAYMENT UNIT
2 August 2012Natural17 acresNational Forests in AlabamaROCK FORD
19 August 2007Natural7.5 acresNational Forests in AlabamaMIRAGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Kentuck: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Uncertain, Anniston AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Talladega County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kentuck in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindKentuck-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of McIntosh Road and Mary drive.

Every storm recorded in Talladega 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
McAding2.1 miles21
Oak Hill3.8 miles21
Sweet Home4.1 miles21
Silver Run4.7 miles21
Hopeful5.0 miles14
Jenifer5.8 miles21
Grant Town6.4 miles21
Munford6.4 miles21

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 KentuckAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18387635The 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 159888. 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.