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Anna, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sand Hill-Girkin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42101. The Survey maps it on the Bowling Green North quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Anna within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Anna between 1998 and 2018, burning about 179 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2018Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHE BRIDGE
29 March 1998Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 March 2002Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Anna: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Gully ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

8 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Anna in 8 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 4 hail, 3 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindAnna$20,000Trained spotters reported power lines down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAnna$20,000The public reported metal siding and a roof blown off a building near Anna.
February 2021Flash FloodAnna-The Richardsville Fire Department rescued two people from a flooded house on Anna Sandhill Road. A 300 gallon floating propane tank was secured.
November 2018Thunderstorm WindAnna-There were multiple large tree limbs down along Highway 185 just south of Anna.
October 2014HailAnna-The Bowling Green media relayed a report about golf ball sized hail in the Anna Community north of Bowling Green. This hail fell from a newly developed supercell that would later bring hail to many locations to the east, ending in a tornado near Lake Cumberland.
April 2017HailAnna-no account filed
April 2008HailAnna-no account filed
April 2008HailAnna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Sand Hill2.1 miles15
Richardsville2.7 miles15
Glenmore3.8 miles14
Rays Branch (historical)4.1 miles15
Penns Chapel (historical)4.1 miles15
Greencastle4.2 miles15
Girkin4.8 miles15
Benleo6.4 miles13

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 AnnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690021The 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 507400. 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.