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Clays Ferry, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Lexington-Fayette Southeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40515. The Survey maps it on the Ford quadrangle.

Clays Ferry within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Clays Ferry between 2001 and 2017, burning about 59 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning1
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 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 February 2017Equipment and vehicle use28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWATER LN
20 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMT. MORIAH FIRE
10 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEKU-FM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clays Ferry: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-Barite. 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
Smitha VeinFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Barium-BaritePast ProducerBarite, Fluorite, Sphalerite
Boonesboro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Richmond Road QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fayette County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clays Ferry in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2018: 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindClays Ferry-Trees were reported down on US 25 and Interstate 75 near mile marker 99.
April 2017HailClays Ferry-The hail resulted in a few home windows broken and shingles damaged.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindClays Ferry-A tree was downed near the intersection of Kidville Lane and Jacks Creek Pike.

Every storm recorded in Fayette 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
Athens4.7 miles15
Spears5.2 miles15
Coletown6.2 miles19
Centerville6.7 miles15
Nihizertown7.3 miles15
East Hickman7.4 miles19
Pricetown7.7 miles15
Chilesburg8.5 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122569722The 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 489596. 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.