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Cork, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Edmonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42129. The Survey maps it on the East Fork quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Cork within Metcalfe 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

35 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Cork between 2000 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
5 April 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySULPHER SPRINGS
11 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Metcalfe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cork in 1 storm report in 2026: 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
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCork-A tree was blown down along Bridgeport Road.

Every storm recorded in Metcalfe 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
Gascon2.4 miles9
Beechville3.1 miles10
Clarks Corner4.1 miles10
Edmonton4.3 miles10
New Liberty6.2 miles10
Cedar Flats6.5 miles10
Knob Lick6.5 miles10
Node7.1 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 CorkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5170738The 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 507761. 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.