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Blythe, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tompkinsville census division. It stands on Herd Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vernon quadrangle.

Blythe within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

69 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Blythe between 1998 and 2017, burning about 1,590 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2

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
26 September 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning133 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE SULFUR
27 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2007Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Debris and open burning71 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Smoking26 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Blythe: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Uranium, Oil Shale. 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
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blythe in 1 storm report in 2012: 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 2012HailBlythe-Local Law enforcement reported that 1 inch hail fell just west of Vernon.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Coe0.5 miles13
Otia1.3 miles13
Johnstonville (historical)2.8 miles14
Vernon3.4 miles13
Meshack3.9 miles13
Martinsburg4.0 miles14
Raydure4.1 miles14
Hestand4.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507541. 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.