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Cedar Bluff, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It sits by Ceda Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Princeton East quadrangle.

Cedar Bluff within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Bluff between 1997 and 2019, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Debris and open burning2
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
6 September 1999Smoking40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAVES FIRE
25 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDAWSON ROAD
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Bluff: 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Morgan Heirs Fluorspar TractFluorine-FluoriteProspect
Phelps Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Princeton MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton No. 2 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Princeton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Bluff in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCedar Bluff$10,000A wind gust to 60 mph was measured by a Kentucky mesonet station just southeast of Princeton. There were a couple of outbuildings with some roof damage. Some trees were down.
February 2025Flash FloodCedar Bluff-Flash flooding along Goose Creek closed Highway 128 southeast of Princeton.

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Scottsburg1.4 miles16
McGowan2.1 miles16
Princeton2.4 miles15
Pumpkin Center2.5 miles16
Walche Cut2.5 miles16
Lebanon (historical)2.6 miles16
Rock Spring (historical)2.7 miles15
Crowtown3.8 miles15

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 Cedar BluffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65057156The 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 507670. 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.