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Coin, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Eubank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42503. It stands on Salem Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bobtown quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Coin within Pulaski 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

15 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Coin between 1998 and 2019, burning about 2,711 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 April 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRUNDY
20 March 2010Recreation and ceremony22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOODHAVEN DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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 Coin: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Pulaski PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

7 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coin in 7 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 3 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2019FloodCoin$1,000A trained spotter observed flooding on Coin Road north of Shopville.
May 2017Flash FloodCoin$1,000Several feet of water was observed over the road at the intersection of Mark Welborn Rd and Barnesburg road near Shopville.
April 2015FloodCoin$1,000Water was covering Mark Welborn Rd.
June 2020Flash FloodCoin$200A citizen observed Flat Lick Creek overspilling its banks, subsequently leading to high water rushing over Barnesburg Road at the intersection with Mark Welborn Road northwest of Shopville.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCoin-A tree was partially blocking the highway near the intersection of Mark Welborn Road and Barnesburg Road.
May 2020FloodCoin-Dispatch relayed a report of water over Barnesburg Road northwest of Shopville.
June 2019Heavy RainCoin-A quick moving shower, on top of recent rainfall, led to Flat Lick Creek overflowing its banks onto Barnesburg and Mark Welburn Roads as observed by a trained spotter.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Mark0.9 miles9
Welborn1.7 miles13
Dry Hole (historical)1.9 miles13
Shopville2.0 miles13
Dabney2.2 miles9
Barnesburg2.2 miles9
Valley Oak2.2 miles13
Bobtown3.3 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 CoinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5141526The 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 507726. 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.