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Blanchet, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Corinth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41010. The Survey maps it on the Mason quadrangle.

Blanchet within Grant County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Blanchet between 1998 and 2020, burning about 53 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROSE FIRE
18 April 2016Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry330 FIRE
18 April 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOCUST FIRE
27 March 1998Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

3 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanchet in 3 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 3 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 2023Thunderstorm WindBlanchet$8,000Several trees were downed in the Corinth area, especially along Blanchet Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBlanchet$1,000A tree was downed over Fork Lick Road.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindBlanchet$250Numerous large tree branches were downed along U.S. Route 25.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Corinth1.6 miles9
Cordova3.3 miles8
Keefer3.5 miles6
Stringtown3.8 miles8
Mason4.0 miles8
Lawrenceville5.3 miles6
Cherry Grove5.7 miles8
Hilltop5.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122547758The 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 507523. 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.