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Chicken Bristle, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hustonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40484. It stands on McKinney Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hustonville quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Chicken Bristle within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Chicken Bristle between 1998 and 2019, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
25 September 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARPENTER HOLLOW
29 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHOLE IN TH
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOWER LINE
13 April 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySKY LINE CEMETERY
10 April 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMORLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chicken Bristle in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2026: 2 flash flood, 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
June 2018Flash FloodChicken Bristle$300,000The emergency manager reported that flood waters were at least 6 feet deep, and that oil was leaking into the Green River. There was road and building damage at State Road 78 west of Stanford, State Road 2141, and State Road 1194 west of Stanford. To the south of Junction City at Mount Salem Road a trailer park was flooded. Al Schuler Road was washed out.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindChicken Bristle-Wind caused roof siding to rip off of a home 2 miles from US Route 127 near Hustonville.
February 2019Flash FloodChicken Bristle-A water rescue took place on Frog Branch Road.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Turnersville1.7 miles8
McKinney2.4 miles8
Hustonville2.6 miles8
Moreland2.7 miles11
McCormack (historical)3.2 miles13
Blue Lick3.3 miles8
Milledgeville3.3 miles11
Geneva3.4 miles8

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 Chicken BristleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5096228The 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 507696. 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.