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Co-Operative, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Co-operative census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42647. It stands on Wolfpen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Barthell quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level.

Co-Operative within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Co-Operative between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,111 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2

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 2007Debris and open burning150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestMOUNTAIN VIEW
16 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBig South Fork National River and Recreation AreaWILSON RIDGE
24 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestHOT ROCK
11 June 2007Natural6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRANKIN
18 May 2001Debris and open burning341 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Co-Operative: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
Yamacraw Sandstone RoadcutSilicaProspect
Highway 1363 RoadcutClayProspect
Whitley Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Co-Operative in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2021: 2 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
December 2019FloodCo Operative$500Dispatch relayed a report of water over the road in Co-Operative.
March 2021FloodCo Operative-Dispatch reported that Hwy 1363 is closed between mile markers 5 and 8 due to high water on road.

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
White Oak Junction1.0 miles9
Fidelity2.0 miles9
Oz2.3 miles9
Blue Heron3.6 miles9
Comargo3.7 miles9
Big South Fork (historical)3.7 miles9
Worley3.9 miles9
Yamacraw4.1 miles9

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 Co-OperativeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5137415The 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 511429. 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.