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Beechy, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tygarts Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41175. It stands on Blackbird Branch. The Survey maps it on the Load quadrangle.

Beechy within Greenup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

165 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Beechy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,103 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 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 burning66
Arson/incendiarism44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 2007Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHEEP HOLL
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 August 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Beechy: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Greenup MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hannah Clay Co. MineClayPast Producer
Howland Tract MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beechy in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 flood, 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
September 2018FloodBeechy$10,000Tygarts Creek near Grayson flooded on the 10th. The creek rose above its 20 foot flood stage just after noon. It crested at 20.7 feet in minor flood stage that evening and returned within its banks shortly after midnight on the 11th. This flooded low areas along SR 7 and CR 2070. The country story and some homes near the creek in the town of Load also had minor flooding.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindBeechy$500Two trees were blown down and obstructed traffic along Pinson Ridge Road and Plum Fork Road in Maloneton.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBeechy$200A tree was blown down along Beechy Creek near the Beechy township.
April 2025FloodBeechy-Tygarts Creek near Greenup exceeded a bankfull level of 20 feet on the evening of April 4th. The creek rose to a crest around 20.1 feet and then receded back into its banks early the next morning. Low areas along Route 7 and Route 2070, and the country store in Load flooded as a result.

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Letitia2.8 miles14
Lynn2.9 miles13
Walsh4.0 miles15
Truitt4.5 miles11
Maloneton4.5 miles15
Grays Branch4.6 miles15
Lloyd4.8 miles18
Oliver Station4.9 miles18

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 Q122551899The 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 507482. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.