Cannel City, 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 41408. It stands on Stone Coal Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Cannel City quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Cannel City quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
165 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Cannel City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,945 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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 burning | 76 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 36 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 33 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | CAMP BRANCH |
| 14 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 11 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 May 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannel City in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | $100,000 | no account filed |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cannel City | $5,000 | Golf ball size hail caused damage to an automobile and a tow behind trailer in Cannel City. |
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | $5,000 | A spotter reported that 12 inch diameter trees were blown down and a porch roof was blown off. |
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | $3,000 | A roof of a building was damaged in Cannel City, and trees were downed across the county. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | $2,000 | Local media reported trees blown down and tin peeled off of the roof of an outbuilding in Cannel City. |
| July 2017 | Flash Flood | Cannel City | $1,000 | Water rescues took place and structures were inundated on Railroad Fork and Prater Road in Cannel City. Highway 191 was impassable due to flooding. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | - | A tree was blown down and onto a house. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | - | Trees were blown down on Hwy 844. |
| May 2009 | Hail | Cannel City | - | One inch diameter hail fell in Cannell City. One and a quarter inches of rain also fell in a 30 minute period. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | - | Trees were down south of Cannel City, and also in West Liberty. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | - | Numerous 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were down. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cannel City | - | Trees were down. |
| March 2012 | Hail | Cannel City | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Hail | Cannel City | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Hail | Cannel City | - | no account filed |
| November 2002 | Hail | Cannel City | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caney | 1.1 miles | 14 | |
| Payton | 1.6 miles | 14 | |
| Head of Stacy Fork (historical) | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Adele | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Road Fork (historical) | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Holliday | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| Sellars | 3.4 miles | 14 | |
| Salem | 3.5 miles | 14 |
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 Cannel City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5032641 | The 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 488881. 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.







