BlockClare, Kentucky
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Halfway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42134. It stands on Smyrna Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hickory Flat quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1928 USGS Adolphus (North Half) quadrangle1:48000
- 1931 USGS Adolphus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1942 USGS Gallatin quadrangle1:100000
- 1954 USGS Hickory Flat quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Hickory Flat quadrangle1:24000
- 1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
6 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clare between 2002 and 2010, burning about 36 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 ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 April 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 March 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 18 March 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 21 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 February 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.5 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 February 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clare in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2012 | Tornado (EF2) | Clare | $10,000 | A long tracked EF-2 tornado that started in Simpson County continued for another 5 and a quarter miles in Allen County. The twister entered Allen County where Highway 100 crosses Sulfur Fork Creek and uprooted many trees as it crossed over a rural area for several miles. Before lifting, the tornado damaged some homes along Walker Chapel Road about one half mile south of Highway 100. |
| May 2000 | Hail | Clare | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McElroy Ford | 1.5 miles | 12 | |
| Eubanks Ford | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Smyrna (historical) | 2.0 miles | 12 | |
| Mount Aerial | 2.6 miles | 14 | |
| Alonzo | 3.1 miles | 12 | |
| New Roe | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Pope | 4.4 miles | 13 | |
| Trammel | 5.3 miles | 13 |
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 Clare | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65074787 | The 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 507705. 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.