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Coburg, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cane Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Russell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cane Valley quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Coburg within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

25 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Coburg between 1998 and 2020, burning about 128 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
20 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHARMON ROAD
24 August 1999Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryLEMONS BEND RD. FIRE
6 March 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coburg: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Butler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coburg in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2022Flash FloodCoburg-Flash flooding occurred in Coburg. Damage amount unknown.
June 2009Flash FloodCoburg-Six to eight inches of water was covering Cane Valley Road between Cane Valley and Kellyville. Water was making roads impassable for most cars and causing several driveways to be impassable as well.
May 2000HailCoburg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Kellyville0.6 miles12
Cane Valley1.7 miles12
Cyclone (historical)2.5 miles12
Holmes3.5 miles12
Mount Pleasant (historical)4.3 miles12
Hatcher4.5 miles10
Absher4.7 miles12
Butler Branch (historical)5.8 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 CoburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5139016The 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 507722. 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.