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Claywell, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kettle-Peytonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It lies near Spearman Island. The Survey maps it on the Burkesville quadrangle.

Claywell within Cumberland 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

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Claywell between 1998 and 2014, burning about 268 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
28 June 2012Recreation and ceremony24 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILSON
21 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2001Smoking3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOOSE CREE
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2014Recreation and ceremony18 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Claywell: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Cadmium, Germanium. 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
BurkesvilleZinc, Cadmium, GermaniumPast ProducerSphalerite
Grider MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claywell in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
March 2020Thunderstorm WindClaywell-A tree blew down on Highway 1880, Smith Grove Road.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Bakerton3.1 miles10
Dougan Town4.1 miles10
Lewis Creek (historical)4.2 miles10
Burkesville4.7 miles10
Bow4.8 miles10
Long Ridge5.1 miles15
Amandaville5.5 miles10
Modoc5.8 miles15

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 Q122547170The 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 507711. 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.