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Clifty, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Kirkmansville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42220. It stands on Sulfur Lick. The Survey maps it on the Allegre quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Clifty within Todd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

14 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Clifty between 2000 and 2010, burning about 161 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
18 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHED FIRE
26 August 2007Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2000Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Todd County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clifty in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 6 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
January 2012Tornado (EF0)Clifty$125,000Several trees were blown down. A barn and several greenhouses were damaged. Some shingles were blown off houses. The roof was blown off a garage that was part of a business. A camper trailer about 25 feet long was overturned and destroyed. A pool was damaged, and a grain bin was damaged. The tornado followed a path very close to Highway 107 before ending on the northeast side of Clifty. Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph. The average path width was 150 yards.
May 1995HailClifty$30,000Softball-size hail fell in the vicinity of Clifty and Kirkmansville. Several roofs and automobiles were damaged.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindClifty$20,000Damage was mainly to trees and a mobile home roof.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindClifty$15,000Downburst winds from a supercell storm damaged a roof and destroyed an outhouse.
July 2020LightningClifty$10,000A lightning strike caused a house fire.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindClifty$5,000In the eastern part of the county, the roof of a sun deck was blown into a neighboring house, and trees were blown down.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindClifty$4,000Numerous trees and power lines were down across northern portions of the county.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindClifty$1,000Gust was measured in Clifty.
May 2025HailClifty-Hail estimated to quarter size was reported in Clifty.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindClifty-A wind gust from 60 to 65 mph was estimated by a trained spotter.
June 2006HailClifty-Quarter size hail fell in northeast portions of the county.
May 2019HailClifty-no account filed
June 2009HailClifty-no account filed
May 2003HailClifty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Todd 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
Mays Store2.8 miles12
Tyewhoppety2.9 miles12
Ashbury (historical)3.2 miles7
Cedar Grove4.2 miles7
Mount Tabor4.6 miles7
Jason4.8 miles12
Kirkmansville5.1 miles14
Tuckertown (historical)5.7 miles7

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 CliftyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5133364The 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 489678. 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.