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Axtel, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Glen Dean-Vanzant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40143. The Survey maps it on the Kingswood quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Axtel within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Axtel between 1998 and 2017, burning about 132 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
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
25 September 1999Smoking11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance21 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALLMAN MCCOY LANE
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryPATRIOT SH
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRAFFO VILLA
10 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined59 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Axtel in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2016: 2 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 2016Thunderstorm WindAxtel$20,000Trained spotters reported trees and power lines down along State Road 1740.
May 2000Thunderstorm WindAxtel-Trees were downed at Axtel.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Hinton Hills1.6 miles12
Cave Spring2.8 miles13
Roff3.0 miles13
Glen Dean3.5 miles13
McDaniels3.7 miles12
Cannons Point4.2 miles12
Dempster4.6 miles13
McQuady5.0 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 AxtelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4830680The 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 507431. 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.