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Cleaton, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Central City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42332. The Survey maps it on the Central City East quadrangle. 168 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Cleaton within Muhlenberg 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

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Cleaton between 1997 and 2018, burning about 2,741 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism19
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
22 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism300 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2010Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMAGAZINE
6 July 2012Debris and open burning145 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOOSE LAKE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleaton in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flash flood. 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
October 2017Flash FloodCleaton-Several roads were closed due to high water in Central City. A vehicle drove into a flooded area and required assistance. The Kentucky mesonet site near Central City measured 4.24 inches in three and a half hours.

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Holt0.4 miles15
Drake (historical)0.6 miles15
Bevier0.8 miles15
Sunrise (historical)1.8 miles15
Nonnell2.0 miles15
Liberty Hill (historical)2.0 miles15
Elk Valley (historical)2.3 miles15
Prospect (historical)2.4 miles16

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 CleatonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5130980The 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 489650. 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.