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Bruin, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Isonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41171. It stands on Birchfield Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bruin quadrangle. It stands 689 feet above sea level.

Bruin within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

51 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Bruin between 1997 and 2020, burning about 668 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON LA
7 May 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 April 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOUATTER RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

13 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bruin in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBruin$5,000Trees down at Route 7 and 409 near Round Ridge and Johnson Creek.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBruin$4,000Trees were blown down on Hwy 7 and Horton Flat Road.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindBruin$3,000Trees and power lines downed at the intersection of Route 7 and HWY 504.
April 2015Flash FloodBruin$1,000Highway 7 was impassable due to flash flooding.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBruin$1,000A tree was blown down at Hwy 409 in Bruin.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBruin-Multiple trees were blown down and across the road at Horton Flat.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBruin-A shed was destroyed and trees were blown down, with one of the trees falling onto the residence located on the same property.
July 2010FloodBruin-Three feet of water was reported to have been across Highway 7 in Bruin.
May 2010FloodBruin-Kentucky Highway 1612 was reported to be flooded and is closed at this time just inside the Carter county line.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindBruin-Large tree limbs were blown down.
September 2002HailBruin-no account filed
May 1998HailBruin-no account filed
June 1998HailBruin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Gomez (historical)2.9 miles15
Ibex3.0 miles9
Green4.4 miles9
Stephens4.8 miles15
Dobbins5.2 miles15
Burke5.7 miles9
Newfoundland5.8 miles9
Stark6.2 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.

Wikipedia article on BruinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4978707The 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 507598. 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.