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Casey Creek, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Casey Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mannsville quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Casey Creek within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Casey Creek between 1998 and 2019, burning about 209 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
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
21 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOOPER RIDGE ROAD
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUNTING HILLS
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAY WILLIAMS RD. FIRE
8 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Casey Creek in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2021Thunderstorm WindCasey Creek-A tree was down across Hood Lane near Fairgrounds Road.

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Knifley2.6 miles10
Feathersburg2.8 miles9
Wethington (historical)2.9 miles10
Dunbar Hill4.0 miles10
Barnett Springs4.1 miles9
Neatsville5.4 miles10
Pellyton5.7 miles9
Eunice6.4 miles9

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 Casey CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5048480The 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 507665. 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.