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Asa, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Oil Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41222. It stands on Cantrill Fork. The Survey maps it on the Oil Springs quadrangle. It stands 772 feet above sea level.

Asa within Johnson County

On record in Asa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

193 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 193 fires within 5 miles of Asa between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,741 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Arson/incendiarism49
Recreation and ceremony32
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLEMAN BRANCH
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning170 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMIDDLE FORK
4 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySKATING RINK HILL
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryABBOTT CREEK
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERN HORN DR.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Asa in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 7 injuries. 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
March 2012Tornado (EF3)Asa2 killed, 7 hurt, $10,000,000A damage survey team from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Jackson, Kentucky determined that an EF-3 tornado tracked across central Johnson County on March 2, 2012. The tornado had a path width of about 3/4 of a mile and estimated maximum wind speeds of 160 mph. The tornado crossed into Johnson County just west of the Asa community at 708 pm EST and continued east-northeast exiting the county between the Boons Camp and Davisport communities around 725 pm EST. The towns of Hagerhill and West Van Leer were particularly hard hit with several structures totally destroyed. Two fatalities occurred in Johnson county as a result of this tornado. ||Ten to twenty houses and a former church had their roofs blown off on a 3 mile stretch of Rt. 302 in West Van Leer. A house was blown onto Hwy 825 in Hagerhill, blocking the roadway. Two different apartment buildings collapsed in Hagerhill as well, one onto Hwy 321 and another on Hwy 1428.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Leander2.0 miles17
Dobson2.1 miles16
Swamp Branch2.3 miles16
Riceville2.5 miles16
Denver2.7 miles17
Oil Springs3.6 miles17
Barnetts Creek4.3 miles17
Collista4.3 miles17

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 AsaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3534859The 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 507419. 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.