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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.

Cannel City 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

165 since 1997

Regional 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 burning76
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
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
13 August 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindCannel City$100,000no account filed
May 2011HailCannel City$5,000Golf ball size hail caused damage to an automobile and a tow behind trailer in Cannel City.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCannel City$5,000A spotter reported that 12 inch diameter trees were blown down and a porch roof was blown off.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindCannel City$3,000A roof of a building was damaged in Cannel City, and trees were downed across the county.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindCannel City$2,000Local media reported trees blown down and tin peeled off of the roof of an outbuilding in Cannel City.
July 2017Flash FloodCannel City$1,000Water rescues took place and structures were inundated on Railroad Fork and Prater Road in Cannel City. Highway 191 was impassable due to flooding.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCannel City-A tree was blown down and onto a house.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindCannel City-Trees were blown down on Hwy 844.
May 2009HailCannel City-One inch diameter hail fell in Cannell City. One and a quarter inches of rain also fell in a 30 minute period.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindCannel City-Trees were down south of Cannel City, and also in West Liberty.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindCannel City-Numerous 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs were down.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindCannel City-Trees were down.
March 2012HailCannel City-no account filed
May 2006HailCannel City-no account filed
April 2002HailCannel City-no account filed
November 2002HailCannel City-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
Caney1.1 miles14
Payton1.6 miles14
Head of Stacy Fork (historical)2.3 miles14
Adele2.7 miles14
Road Fork (historical)2.7 miles14
Holliday3.1 miles12
Sellars3.4 miles14
Salem3.5 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 Cannel CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5032641The 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.