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Caney, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannel City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle. It stands 869 feet above sea level.

Caney within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

168 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Caney between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,958 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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 burning75
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST ROUTE 1081
14 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caney in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindCaney$20,000Multiple trees were blown down and a roof was caved in on a building in Caney.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCaney-Dispatch reported a downed tree along Kentucky Highway 191 near Cannel City.
May 2011HailCaney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Cannel City1.1 miles14
Holliday2.0 miles12
Payton2.1 miles14
Head of Stacy Fork (historical)2.3 miles14
Stacy Fork2.8 miles14
Vance Fork (historical)3.1 miles12
Adele3.8 miles14
Road Fork (historical)3.8 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.

Wikipedia article on CaneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5032283The 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 488810. 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.