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Arnett, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cowcreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Smith Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cowcreek quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Arnett within Owsley 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

191 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Arnett between 1995 and 2020, burning about 13,374 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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 burning91
Arson/incendiarism57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking1

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 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSTINGER
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN CREEK
1 May 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHORN HILL
9 April 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresDaniel Boone National ForestINGOL
8 April 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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 Arnett: 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
Crane Fork Valley ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnett in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
May 2013Thunderstorm WindArnett-A large tree was blown down on Hwy 28.

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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
Hall Neighborhood (historical)1.8 miles12
Lucky Fork3.0 miles13
Cowcreek3.0 miles12
Ricetown3.2 miles12
Indian Creek Neighborhood (historical)3.2 miles12
Hogg Neighborhood (historical)3.4 miles14
Sebastian4.4 miles13
Eversole4.7 miles14

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 ArnettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4794725The 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 510299. 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.