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Cobb, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It stands on Millwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cobb quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Cobb within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Cobb between 1999 and 2012, burning about 94 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/undetermined4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
6 September 1999Smoking40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestry139 RAMP
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPERRY
10 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 November 1999Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKCASTLE ROAD
6 October 2008Smoking30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cobb in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2016: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindCobb$8,000On Highway 91, trees up to two feet in diameter were blown down.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Cobb-Tree limbs were blown down by this very short, weak tornado. The tornado was witnessed by a trained spotter. Peak winds were estimated near 65 mph.
April 2010Heavy RainCobb-Three-quarters of an inch of rain fell in 14 minutes.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCobb-Several trees were blown down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindCobb-A co-operative observer estimated wind gusts from 50 to 60 MPH.
June 2003Flash FloodCobb-Millwood Creek overflowed its banks onto Harmony Church Road. A vehicle was swept off the road and into the creek. The vehicle came to rest against some trees, and the man driving it was able to climb onto the roof. The fire department located the man a few hours later and rescued him with ladders. The flash flood was caused by a nearly stationary isolated thunderstorm.
May 2016HailCobb-no account filed
May 2016Funnel CloudCobb-no account filed
March 2011HailCobb-no account filed
June 1998HailCobb-no account filed
April 1998HailCobb-no account filed
May 1995HailCobb-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Otter Pond3.5 miles16
Hopson3.6 miles7
Friendship4.6 miles16
McGowan5.8 miles16
Lebanon (historical)6.1 miles16
Scottsburg6.5 miles16
Rock Spring (historical)7.2 miles15
Walche Cut7.4 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 CobbAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690239The 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 489747. 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.