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Cornelius, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40402. It stands on Pond Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Parrot quadrangle.

Cornelius within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Cornelius between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,352 acres in total. None started naturally. 40 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
Arson/incendiarism40
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPEOPLE'S FIRE
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 August 1999Debris and open burning20 acresDaniel Boone National ForestLAUREL FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornelius in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 1 hail, 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCornelius-Jackson County Dispatch reported a tree down on the 5800 block of KY-3630 in Annville, KY.
November 2002HailCornelius-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Bond1.2 miles13
Seven Pines (historical)1.8 miles14
Dabolt1.9 miles14
Annville2.1 miles13
Moores Creek2.3 miles13
Pine Flat (historical)2.5 miles14
Green Hill2.6 miles13
Peoples2.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511548. 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.