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Chenoa, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Pruden-Fonde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40977. It stands on Partin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Kayjay quadrangle.

Chenoa within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

128 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Chenoa between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,819 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
3 June 2019Arson/incendiarism17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD MILL ROAD FIRE
24 June 2014Natural80 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPUNKIN PATCH
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHALL RD FIRE
7 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE ROUND MT FIRE
6 April 2011Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 225 FIRE
6 April 2010Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chenoa in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 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
February 2019Heavy RainChenoa$5,000Kentucky Highway 3485 near Frakes was reported by a media outlet to have been damaged from a slide.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindChenoa$1,000A tree was blown down onto powerlines near 283 Hubbard Hollow Road near the community of Chenoa.
March 2021Flash FloodChenoa-A culvert washed out overnight, causing Parton Branch Road to be flooded near KY-190 in the Chenoa community.
June 2009Flash FloodChenoa-Highway 92 was closed due to flood waters about 1.5 miles southwest of the intersection of Highways 92 and 225.
June 2003Tornado (F0)Chenoa-A tornado touched down near Chenoa Lake and blew several large trees down. The tornado then became a waterspout over Chenoa Lake and sent water approximately 200 feet into the air before dissipating minutes later.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Hamblim1.2 miles16
Henderson Grove1.6 miles16
Olcott1.9 miles18
Davisburg2.2 miles18
Garmeada3.2 miles18
Frakes3.9 miles16
Capito4.1 miles18
Fonde5.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507691. 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.