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Congleton, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Southwest Lee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41311. It stands on Mikes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Beattyville quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Congleton within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

338 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Congleton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,728 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 74 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 burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined99
Arson/incendiarism74
Recreation and ceremony37
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE ASH
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 11 SOUTH
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Congleton in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 debris flow. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindCongleton$3,000Trees were blown down in White Ash.
June 2021Debris FlowCongleton$2,000A landslide was reported on KY-11 heading towards Booneville.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCongleton$1,000A tree was blown down on South Fork Rd southeast of Beattyville.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindCongleton-Multiple trees were blown down along KY-587 and KY-11 south of the city of Beattyville.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCongleton-Numerous trees were blown down.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindCongleton-A tree was blown down and across Old Railroad Bed Road.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindCongleton-Trees were down across Pine Grove Road.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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 Ash1.1 miles13
Proctor1.2 miles13
Beattyville1.4 miles13
Belle Point1.8 miles13
Enoch2.3 miles13
Lower Buffalo2.3 miles13
Maloney3.1 miles13
Heidelberg3.3 miles11

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 CongletonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690249The 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 511496. 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.