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Coral Ridge, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Pond Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40118. It stands on Little Bee Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooks quadrangle.

Coral Ridge within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Coral Ridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined7
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2012Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOHNSON HO
18 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.9 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHIP FIRE
12 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2020Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFAIRDALE HIGH FIRE
4 May 2001Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Coral Ridge: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Bloating Material, Clay, 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
Coral RidgeClayProducer
Okolona QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ShepherdsvilleBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coral Ridge in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2023HailCoral Ridge-Quarter sized hail was reported near Hillview.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindCoral Ridge-Trees were reported down on the 10200 block of Blue Lick Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCoral Ridge-A NWS employee reported a large tree downed.
July 2018HailCoral Ridge-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Hollyvilla0.5 miles17
South Park1.2 miles17
Fairdale1.3 miles20
South Park View1.7 miles17
Heritage Creek2.1 miles17
Newtown (historical)2.3 miles18
Knopp3.5 miles17
Penile3.6 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q49685065The 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 490089. 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.