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Cannonsburg, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41102. It stands on Marsh Run. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle. 862 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 605 feet above sea level.

Cannonsburg within Boyd County

Population over time

2 figures

Cannonsburg grew from 856 to 862 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010856
2020862+6 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

119 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Cannonsburg between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,053 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning27
Arson/incendiarism23
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELIZABETH COURT
21 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryREBEL ROAD
19 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2018Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUCK HAVEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cannonsburg: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 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
Clinton Shale MineClayPast Producer
Princess Mine Big RunClayProducer

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

14 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannonsburg in 14 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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
July 2011Flash FloodCannonsburg$150,000Rain amounts of 2 to 3 inches likely fell in less than 2 hours. Around 25 homes flooded, mainly in the Countryside Drive and Hatchery Road vicinity south of Summit. A partially collapsed culvert helped pool the upstream water there. Roads were closed and a few water rescues also occurred.
July 2011LightningCannonsburg$15,000Lightning struck the fire department. Assistance from Summit and East Fork volunteer fire departments helped put out the fire. The electrical system was damaged.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg$5,000Trees were blown down onto power lines.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg$2,000Trees were blown down along Straight Creek Road.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg$2,000About a dozen trees were blown down with some damage to outbuildings.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg$1,000Large branches were blown down.
June 2011HailCannonsburg$1,000Nickel size hail fell along Interstate 64.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg-Trees were blown down. The electricity was also knocked out.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg-Trees were blown down.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg-Trees fell onto roads.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCannonsburg-Several trees fell along Route 3.
September 2012HailCannonsburg-no account filed
May 2011Funnel CloudCannonsburg-no account filed
May 2004HailCannonsburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Meads1.7 miles22
Rockdale2.1 miles22
Princess2.3 miles22
Mavity3.0 miles21
Chadwick Creek (historical)3.0 miles22
Summit3.5 miles22
Little Garner (historical)3.7 miles22
Coalton3.7 miles15

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 CannonsburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2891920The 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 488892. 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.