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Chappell, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Mozelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40808. It stands on Robin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cutshin quadrangle. It stands 1,033 feet above sea level.

Chappell within Leslie County

On record in Chappell

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

112 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Chappell between 1993 and 2019, burning about 10,174 acres in total. None started naturally. 28 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 burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism28
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2018Arson/incendiarism95 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CK
17 May 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined84 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leslie County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chappell in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindChappell-The county 911 Dispatch reported a tree to have been blown down due to thunderstorm winds on Hwy 2009 near Robins Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Leslie 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
Lewis Creek2.3 miles25
Mozelle2.6 miles14
Asher3.7 miles14
Napier3.9 miles25
Helton4.5 miles25
Upper Laurel Fork (historical)4.7 miles25
Causey4.9 miles14
Hoskinston5.1 miles14

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 ChappellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690203The 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 511316. 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.