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Atterson, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Clementsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Gum Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clementsville quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Atterson within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Atterson between 1998 and 2017, burning about 239 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
16 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHRISTIAN
25 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2008Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2015Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRUTH RANDOLPH RD. FIRE
9 March 2000Natural2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atterson in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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 2003HailAtterson-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Sulphur Run (historical)2.2 miles10
White Oak Ridge (historical)2.7 miles10
Scotts Chapel (historical)3.0 miles10
Pine Grove (historical)3.2 miles8
Clementsville3.4 miles10
Bass3.5 miles9
Woodrum Ridge (historical)3.8 miles10
Caney Fork (historical)4.5 miles7

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 AttersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4818275The 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 507426. 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.