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Brushart, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tygarts Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41141. It lies near Grizzle Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Brushart quadrangle.

Brushart within Greenup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

101 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Brushart between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,661 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning52
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony11
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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Brushart: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bradley MinesClayPast Producer
Horner Clay MineClayPast Producer
Horner MineClayPast Producer
Jordan Clay Strip MineClayPast Producer
Ramey Zorne Branch MineClayPast Producer
Strickland Tract MineClayPast Producer
Wilburn MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brushart in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2017: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 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 2017FloodBrushart$10,000As water following the heavy rainfall and flash flooding on the 23rd drained through the streams and rivers, Tygarts Creek flooded. This caused high water along State Routes 2 and 7 which lingered into the early morning of the 25th.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindBrushart$2,000Trees were blown down along Route 784.
March 2017Flash FloodBrushart$1,000Flash flooding along Three Prong Brand and Horner Fork caused water to cover Route 784.

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Tygarts Valley3.7 miles8
York3.8 miles11
Kehoe4.0 miles8
Truitt5.5 miles11
Warnock5.8 miles14
Load6.2 miles13
Lynn8.8 miles13
Letitia9.1 miles14

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 Q122543348The 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 507601. 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.