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Bug, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It stands on Hays Creek. The Survey maps it on the Savage quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Bug within Clinton County

On record in Bug

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

32 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Bug between 1999 and 2019, burning about 371 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
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
20 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAY FIRE
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 May 2000Arson/incendiarism274 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGOODMAN RD
6 March 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 March 2015Smoking1.6 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDANNY THOMAS
27 March 2014Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOHIO NAVY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bug: 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Albany QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrenceSphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bug in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2018Thunderstorm WindBug-The public reported a tree down near South Clearfork Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBug-County Dispatch reported that trees and power lines were downed countywide. Specifically, trees had fallen at the intersection of State Road 127 South and Spring Creek Bridge roads, and in the Cedar Hill Community.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindBug-Trees were blown down in Bug, KY.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Jones Mill0.3 miles11
Concord (historical)1.4 miles11
Churntop (historical)1.5 miles12
Maupin (historical)1.8 miles11
Cedar Knob2.2 miles11
Paoli (historical)2.2 miles12
Pikeview2.4 miles11
Ewing (historical)2.4 miles12

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 BugAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4986052The 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 488337. 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.