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Adolphus, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Adolphus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42120. It stands on Rock Quarry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Adolphus quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Adolphus within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Adolphus between 1998 and 2005, burning about 76 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
19 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Smoking5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
24 February 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 December 2005Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
9 November 1999Smoking46 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
28 October 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
28 October 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen 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 Adolphus: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, Lead. 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
Central Tennessee Zinc DistrictZinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Barium-Barite, LeadProducer1969, 1975

Every working recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adolphus in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2013: 1 flash flood, 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
April 2012Flash FloodAdolphus$30,000Allen County emergency management reported flash flooding near the intersection of Stafford Hollow Road and Andrew Jackson Highway. Several feet of water entered one home, making it uninhabitable. Several other homes were damaged.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindAdolphus$5,000Estimated 60 mph winds near Adolphus tore a portion of a barn's roof off.

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Fleet1.7 miles12
Walnut Grove2.1 miles12
Petroleum3.1 miles12
Rodemer5.0 miles12
Chapel Hill5.0 miles12
Alonzo5.3 miles12
Forest Springs5.3 miles12
Mount Union (historical)6.2 miles12

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 AdolphusAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4684447The 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 485782. 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.