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Aflex, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It lies near Culler Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Delbarton quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Aflex within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Aflex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,509 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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 burning73
Arson/incendiarism59
Fireworks33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism81 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTAYLORVILLE #2
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOFTIS MANSION
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aflex in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2010: 1 hail, 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
August 2010Thunderstorm WindAflex$1,000A tree was blown down near Aflex.
July 2005HailAflex-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Goody1.2 miles23
Leckieville1.3 miles23
Toler1.5 miles23
New Camp2.0 miles23
South Williamson2.2 miles23
Stringtown2.2 miles22
Burnwell2.4 miles22
Hardy2.5 miles24

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 AflexAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4689283The 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 485789. 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.