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Christine, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the White Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. The Survey maps it on the Knifley quadrangle. It stands 984 feet above sea level.

Christine within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Christine between 1999 and 2016, burning about 248 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
Debris and open burning14
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
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
26 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Christine: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Butler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Patton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christine in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2022Thunderstorm WindChristine-Trees were down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindChristine-Adair County dispatch reported trees down in and around Christine.
May 1998HailChristine-Dime size hail reported by dispatch.

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
Purdy1.3 miles10
Oak Grove (historical)2.5 miles10
Garlin3.1 miles9
Concord (historical)3.2 miles10
Absher3.3 miles12
Craycraft3.3 miles10
Ella3.7 miles10
Mount Pleasant (historical)4.3 miles12

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 ChristineAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5110895The 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 507700. 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.