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Alpine, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Burnside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42519. It stands on Neelys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burnside quadrangle.

Alpine within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Alpine between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,756 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCEMETERY
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestOLE HIGHWAY 27
30 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBUCK KNOB FIRE II
3 June 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestJEEP
27 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJERU KNOB
18 June 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 May 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPOWER LINE
3 May 2018Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCURT POND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Alpine: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Tateville MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

8 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alpine in 8 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 4 hail, 4 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAlpine$1,000Multiple trees were blown down along Bauer Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAlpine$1,000A tree was blown down along Blue John Road near Alpine.
September 2024HailAlpine-A picture from social media showed approximately 1.75 inch diameter hail at Alpine.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindAlpine-The Pulaski County dispatch reported a tree blown down near the intersection of US-27 and Jeru Knob Road.
July 2014HailAlpine-Half dollar size hail was observed in Alpine.
July 2014HailAlpine-Quarter to golf ball size hail was observed at the Alpine Recreational Area.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindAlpine-Numerous trees and large limbs down.
May 2006HailAlpine-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Sloans Valley1.2 miles12
Omega2.0 miles12
Blue John2.0 miles17
Hargis3.2 miles17
Keno3.6 miles12
Tateville4.2 miles12
Northfield5.6 miles11
Hail5.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 510247. 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.