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Clifford, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clifford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It lies near Ratcliffe Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Louisa quadrangle.

Clifford within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Clifford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,617 acres in total. None started naturally. 112 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
Arson/incendiarism112
Debris and open burning63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryWEBB ROAD
29 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUFFALO HORN
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2008Debris and open burning70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryDONATHAN R

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifford in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 2020FloodClifford$25,000A portion of Yellow Creek Road collapsed due to high water near the town of Clifford.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindClifford$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down along Route 1690 near the town of Cherryville.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Falls of Tug0.6 miles24
Laurel (historical)2.0 miles17
Donathon (historical)2.1 miles24
Summit4.2 miles24
Upper Tug (historical)4.3 miles25
Gallup5.1 miles24
Chapman5.4 miles24
Torchlight5.7 miles24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507715. 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.