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Adele, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannel City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41332. It stands on Conley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle.

Adele within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

188 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Adele between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,179 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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 burning85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Arson/incendiarism38
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adele in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2017Flash FloodAdele$1,000Highway 134 and Camp Branch Road were both impassable due to flash flooding in the Adele community. At least one structure was inundated.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindAdele$1,000One tree was blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts on Highway 191.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAdele-A tree was blown down onto KY-191 between the communities of Adele and Helechewa.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAdele-A tree was blown down and onto the Mountain Parkway near Adele.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindAdele-Two trees were blown down near the intersection of Hwy's 119 and 134.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAdele-A tree was blown down and across Hwy 134.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Road Fork (historical)0.5 miles14
Cannel City2.7 miles14
Wheelrim Fork (historical)2.8 miles11
Wheel Rim2.8 miles11
Sellars3.1 miles14
Payton3.1 miles14
Caney3.8 miles14
Head of Stacy Fork (historical)4.1 miles14

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 AdeleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19871605The 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 507376. 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.