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Cornettsville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Daisy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41731. It stands on Leatherwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. It stands 932 feet above sea level.

Cornettsville within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

271 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Cornettsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,076 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 48 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 burning124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Arson/incendiarism48
Recreation and ceremony20
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural2
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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresDaniel Boone National ForestORCHARD
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELK CREEK
19 September 1999Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER RIVER RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornettsville in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindCornettsville$4,000There were trees reported down along KY highway 7 near Cornettsville. The report was relayed by TV media.
December 2015FloodCornettsville$1,000High water caused by brush backing up under a bridge lead to flooding of Little Leatherwood Creek Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCornettsville-Kentucky State Police reported a tree knocked down onto KY-7 in the vicinity of Cornettsville.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindCornettsville-Trees were blown down, including one that fell on a house on Big Branch in the Fusonia/Kodak area.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCornettsville-Two trees were blown down.
July 2000HailCornettsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Fuson (historical)1.6 miles16
Daisy1.7 miles14
Big Branch (historical)2.8 miles16
Fusonia2.9 miles16
Wentz3.7 miles14
Beehive (historical)4.0 miles14
Slemp4.2 miles14
Middle Fork (historical)4.4 miles16

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 CornettsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5171705The 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 490126. 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.