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Bliss, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gradyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Bliss within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Bliss between 1998 and 2017, burning about 287 acres in total. None 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 burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBY-PASS
6 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 61N FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bliss in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBliss$30,000An Adair County law enforcement official reported a roof was blown off a house due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindBliss-There was a large tree blocking the Cumberland Parkway.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBliss-Trees were reported down on Jones Chapel Road.
July 2015HailBliss-A trained spotter reported hail 1.75 inches in diameter.
June 2010Tornado (EF0)Bliss-Numerous trees were blown down with one partially uprooted and fallen on a house. A barn was also demolished. The tornado was an EF-0 with winds estimated to be 80 to 83 mph. The tornado was 40 yards wide and was on the ground for approximately two-thirds of a mile.

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Hunter (historical)1.8 miles9
South Columbia (historical)2.1 miles9
Pelham Branch (historical)2.3 miles9
Flatwood2.3 miles9
Gradyville2.9 miles9
Milltown3.5 miles9
Tabor (historical)3.8 miles9
Longview (historical)3.8 miles9

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 BlissAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4926818The 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 507525. 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.