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Bakerton, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burkesville quadrangle. It stands 600 feet above sea level.

Bakerton within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Bakerton between 1998 and 2016, burning about 1,290 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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
28 June 2012Recreation and ceremony24 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILSON
21 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2001Smoking3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOOSE CREE
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism845 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

6 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bakerton in 6 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
July 2022Flash FloodBakerton-Portions of Lawson Bottom Road were washed out from flash flooding.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBakerton-A Cumberland County law enforcement official reported power lines down in the area from severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBakerton-The Cumberland County emergency manager reported some trees downed near State Highway 3140.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindBakerton-Law enforcement reported that State Highway 3140 was closed due to several downed trees.
October 2014HailBakerton-Two inch hail covered the ground 5 miles north of Burkesville. This hail came from a long-lived supercell that began earlier near Bowling Green.
October 2014HailBakerton-The Cumberland Emergency Manager reported that 2 inch hail four miles north of Burkesville damaged homes and vehicles.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Little Renox (historical)3.1 miles8
Claywell3.1 miles10
Lewis Creek (historical)3.2 miles10
Big Renox3.4 miles8
Amandaville3.5 miles10
Dougan Town3.7 miles10
Burkesville4.5 miles10
Sugar Grove (historical)4.5 miles8

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 BakertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4849319The 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 507440. 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.