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Canada, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Sidney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41519. It stands on Coburn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Belfry quadrangle. It stands 833 feet above sea level.

Canada within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

109 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Canada between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,516 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony11

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 2007Debris and open burning98 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOFTIS MANSION
18 August 2008Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 July 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2000Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canada in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2022: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
January 2022Flash FloodCanada$20,000Big Creek Fire Department is inundated with water near the community of Sidney.
March 2015FloodCanada$1,000Water of unknown depth was seen flowing over roadways in the Belfry area.
May 2017HailCanada-A Skywarn storm spotter observed penny sized hail south of Canada.
May 2017HailCanada-Local media reported nickel sized hail northwest of Canada.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCanada-Trees were blown down near Sidney.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCanada-Trees were blown down near Canada.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCanada-A large tree was blown down.
June 2011HailCanada-A trained spotter observed a large amount of dime to nickel size hail with a few quarter size pieces mixed in.
June 2007HailCanada-Nickel sized hail.
July 2001Flash FloodCanada-Heavy rains brought flooding to the area. Water was reported flowing over U.S. Highway 119 near Canada. Rock and mudslides were also reported in the area.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Pigeon Roost (historical)0.5 miles19
Sidney2.0 miles19
Sydney (historical)2.0 miles19
Upper Dick (historical)2.3 miles19
Road Fork (historical)2.6 miles23
Huddy2.7 miles19
Forest Hills2.8 miles23
Sharondale3.0 miles19

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 CanadaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1031917The 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 507642. 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.