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Cleopatra, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42327. The Survey maps it on the Calhoun quadrangle. It stands 453 feet above sea level.

Cleopatra within McLean County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Cleopatra between 2001 and 2013, burning about 91 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/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 November 2010Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAWN MOWER
2 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPASCAL KING RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McLean County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleopatra in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
July 2016Flash FloodCleopatra$8,000Flowing water damaged a culvert on a county road near Beech Grove. Parts of State Roads 136 West, 56 North, 250, and 140 were under water. The Kentucky mesonet site several miles northwest of Calhoun measured 5.18 inches during the morning.

Every storm recorded in McLean 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
Leachman (historical)1.1 miles13
Johnson Island2.1 miles13
Wyman2.2 miles13
Glovers (historical)2.3 miles13
Guffie2.4 miles13
Brooks (historical)3.7 miles13
Poverty3.9 miles13
Mayo Hills (historical)3.9 miles13

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 CleopatraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5131724The 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 507714. 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.