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Carrs, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Vanceburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It lies near Fairmont Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Carrs within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Carrs between 1997 and 2014, burning about 176 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
30 August 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2001Arson/incendiarism100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
9 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2014Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOSMAN FARM
22 March 2013Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUIKS RUN
17 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis 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 Carrs: 1 prospect. 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
Fairview Roadcut Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carrs in 1 storm report in 2018: 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
August 2018Flash FloodCarrs$15,000A water line was washed out along Quicks Run Road about 2 miles from KY-8.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Queens1.9 miles15
Concord4.3 miles15
Covedale5.4 miles14
Clarksburg5.7 miles14
Charters5.8 miles13
Herron Hill6.2 miles13
Pence6.6 miles14
Vanceburg6.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507659. 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.