Agnes, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Lewisburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. It sits by Whiterock Cliff. The Survey maps it on the Rosewood quadrangle.

Agnes within Logan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1911 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:48000
1913 USGS Drakesboro quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Rosewood quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Rosewood quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

25 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Agnes between 1997 and 2016, burning about 239 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	8
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 August 2007	Smoking	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 May 1999	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JESS WINN ROAD
8 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 March 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Logan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agnes in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Agnes	-	The public reported that multiple trees were down along Jason Ridge Road. Hail was between quarter and ping pong ball size.

Every storm recorded in Logan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Whiskey Bay	0.8 miles	12
Whispering Pines	1.3 miles	12
Hollow Bill	1.8 miles	11
Deer Lick	2.4 miles	12
Diamond Springs	2.5 miles	11
Pogue (historical)	2.7 miles	11
Wolf Lick	4.0 miles	11
Jerico	4.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507379. 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.