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Canoe, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Canoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It stands on Little Fork Canoe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Canoe quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Canoe within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

173 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Canoe between 1995 and 2020, burning about 10,065 acres in total. None started naturally. 37 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 burning78
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony18
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremony33 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMICK COMBS HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canoe in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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 2006Thunderstorm WindCanoe$2,000One tree and one power line blown down.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCanoe-Breathitt county dispatch reported a tree blown down in the 5900 block of Canoe Road, in the community of Canoe.
January 2022Flash FloodCanoe-A report came in that water rescues were being performed on Joe Little Fork and Stamper Fork Roads in the community of Canoe.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCanoe-A large pine tree was snapped, while several other smaller trees and large limbs were blown down along Highways 315 and 1933 near Talbert.
May 2009Flash FloodCanoe-Water was over Canoe Road in the town of Canoe.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindCanoe-Trees were downed.
June 1998HailCanoe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Sebastians Branch1.6 miles13
Talbert2.0 miles13
Shoulderblade3.5 miles13
Houston3.6 miles12
Turkey3.8 miles12
Crockettsville3.8 miles13
Copland4.2 miles13
Whick4.3 miles13

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 CanoeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5032873The 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 511206. 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.