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Carrie, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Emmalena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41725. It stands on Walkers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carrie quadrangle. It stands 997 feet above sea level.

Carrie within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

366 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Carrie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,939 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 64 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 burning179
Missing data/not specified/undetermined82
Arson/incendiarism64
Recreation and ceremony34
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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 Carrie: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ogden Branch StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrie in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindCarrie$10,000Trees and power lines were blown down along KY 550 by wind gusts estimated at 62 mph.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindCarrie$2,000Tree down on Highway 550. Power lines down in Carrie.
March 2015FloodCarrie$1,000One lane of KY 550 at mile marker 9 was impassable due to flooding.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCarrie-Knott County Dept of Highways reported a tree down between MM 9 and 10 on KY-550.
July 2023FloodCarrie-Social media pictures in the town of Hindman show creeks out of their banks with water up to the yards of homes and businesses.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCarrie-Trees were blown down in Carrie.

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Montgomery (historical)2.1 miles16
Tina2.1 miles16
Emmalena2.2 miles16
Hindman2.8 miles16
Ritchie3.0 miles16
Odgen Gap3.1 miles16
Bearville3.2 miles16
Fisty3.7 miles16

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 CarrieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5046190The 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 507658. 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.