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Breeding, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Gradyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42715. The Survey maps it on the Breeding quadrangle. It stands 1,001 feet above sea level.

Breeding within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

24 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Breeding between 1998 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 July 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2018Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD 61 LOOP
17 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2020Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIRD ROAD
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.1 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breeding in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
December 2009FloodBreeding1 killed, $10,000A fatality occurred near Casey Creek the evening of December 8th. A man was killed as he attempted to rescue his wife who was trapped in high water.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Breeding$1,000This small tornado destroyed one outbuilding in addition to uprooting and snapping limbs on several trees in a very narrow path near the community of Breeding in southwest Adair County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBreeding-Power lines were down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBreeding-Several trees were downed near Breeding according to local dispatch.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBreeding-Large limbs blocked a road
May 1995Thunderstorm WindBreeding-County Department of Emergency Service reports a barn destroyed and trees blown down.
July 2008HailBreeding-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBreeding-no account filed
March 1997Tornado (F2)Breeding-no account filed

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
Estep1.8 miles9
Firkin (historical)2.0 miles9
Toria2.1 miles9
Bird (historical)3.6 miles9
Sparksville3.8 miles9
Nell4.3 miles9
Rowes Store (historical)5.2 miles10
Weed5.8 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 BreedingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4960274The 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 487855. 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.