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Aaron, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cumberland City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It lies near Desda Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek Dam quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Aaron within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

53 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Aaron between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,293 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use150 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHIPPOORWILL FIRE
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aaron in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAaron-There were numerous trees down along US 127 in the northern part of the county.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindAaron-The Clinton County Emergency Manager reported trees down on Charlie Tallent Road and Grider Hill Dock. There were other trees reported down on Beaty Creek Road and Highway 558 near the Piney Woods subdivision.
April 1999Thunderstorm WindAaron-Trees down

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Desda1.8 miles11
Willis Creek2.2 miles11
Waterview (historical)2.4 miles11
Seventy Six2.7 miles11
Decide3.0 miles11
Ida3.2 miles11
Willow Grove (historical)3.7 miles11
Williams Creek (historical)4.7 miles10

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 AaronAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19871373The 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 507367. 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.