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Cannon, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Barbourville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40923. It stands on Dancey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fount quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Cannon within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

369 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Cannon between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,814 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 85 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 burning194
Arson/incendiarism85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony35
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Smoking1

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 2002Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 June 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVALENTINE BRANCH FIRE
13 June 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cannon: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Barbourville ShaleClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannon in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 2 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
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCannon$10,000Trees were blown down onto power lines and a power line was down on a house.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCannon-Dispatch relayed multiple reports of downed trees from Cannon through Barbourville to Flat Lick.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Girdler1.9 miles16
Hinkle2.1 miles16
Heidrick2.5 miles18
Bimble3.1 miles16
Barbourville3.7 miles17
Emanuel3.9 miles18
Boone Heights4.1 miles17
Apple Grove (historical)4.3 miles17

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 CannonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690197The 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 507644. 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.