Cantown, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It lies near Hacker Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. It stands 1,129 feet above sea level.

Cantown within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1952 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

52 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cantown between 1998 and 2014, burning about 981 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	41 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STRONG BRANCH
6 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MASSENGALE
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ELLIOT
2 April 2013	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FIRE TOWER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cantown in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2015: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cantown	$3,000	The National Weather Service conducted a survey of extensive tree damage along a one mile path parallel to Victory Road southeast of Liberty Kentucky. Overall, around 50 to 100 hard and softwood trees were either snapped or toppled. Damage began around one mile west of the intersection of Victory and Poplar Springs road, at the western end of Victory Road. Winds estimated at up to 80 mph produced concentrated tree damage around one half mile east of the initial damage. One well built house had some minor gutter and roof damage.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Cantown	-	A Casey County law enforcement official reported two trees down in the area from severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Cantown	-	Multiple trees were blown down.
February 2012	Hail	Cantown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Athens	1.5 miles	7
Gilpin	1.6 miles	7
Poplar Springs (historical)	2.4 miles	7
Labascus	2.4 miles	7
Pricetown	2.8 miles	7
Boyle (historical)	2.9 miles	7
Rubert Ford	3.4 miles	7
Phil	3.9 miles	7

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 Cantown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5034043	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 507648. 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.