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Baldrock, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Keavy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40744. It stands on Ben Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sawyer quadrangle.

Baldrock within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Baldrock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 58 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
Arson/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
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
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestCADILLIAC
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarism6.5 acresDaniel Boone National ForestAUGER SPRINGS
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWHIPPOORWILL
14 September 2005Arson/incendiarism108 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWHIPPOORWILL
1 September 2011Natural8.2 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCAMPBELL BRANCH
18 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestAUGER
14 July 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestLINE DANCE
10 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBOAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

8 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldrock in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
April 2012Thunderstorm WindBaldrock$10,000There were large limbs blown down onto highway 192.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBaldrock$4,000Trees were down and blocking Highways 1193 and 192.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBaldrock-A tree was blown down and onto London Dock Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindBaldrock-An NWS Storm Survey revealed a roughly 1500 foot swath of snapped and uprooted trees paralleling Kentucky Highway 192 near the intersection with Kentucky Highway 1193 west of Keavy.
June 2004HailBaldrock-Three quarter inch diameter hail fell in Rockcastle Springs.
May 2017HailBaldrock-no account filed
May 2017HailBaldrock-no account filed
May 2004Thunderstorm WindBaldrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Vox4.5 miles16
Hightop5.9 miles14
Keavy6.6 miles14
Dorthae9.5 miles17
Hopewell10.2 miles17
North Corbin10.3 miles17
Pine Grove10.9 miles14
Camp Grounds11.3 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.

Wikidata item Q122543948The 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 510371. 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.