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Crailhope, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Donansburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42214. It lies near Crail Hill. The Survey maps it on the Center quadrangle.

Crailhope within Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

20 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Crailhope between 1999 and 2017, burning about 390 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCENTER-THREE SPRINGS FIRE
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 2013Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFROGGETT FIRE
9 February 2001Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crailhope: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Chapman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crailhope in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2017Thunderstorm WindCrailhope$300,000Over 160 structures were damaged in a 2-3 mile wide swath extending 15 miles from near Hiseville in Barren County northeast across Metcalfe into Green County. Three EF-1 tornadoes, with maximum winds of 100-110 mph were embedded within this area. Outside of the tornadoes, maximum winds were estimated at 70-90 mph. In Green County, non-tornadic winds did the most damage to homes 3/4 mile east-northeast of Crailhope and 1.75 miles west-northwest of Pierce.
April 2017Tornado (EF1)Crailhope$100,000The tornado touched down in an open field and moved northeast toward a corner on Mahogany Lane. Two small vortices, one 50 yards wide and the other 100 yards wide, reached speeds up to 105 mph as they destroyed a large, well-built barn and two smaller outbuildings in addition to a fifth wheel trailer. The debris from each of these structures was blown to the northeast up to mile, and exhibited both convergence and rotation.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCrailhope$50,000The Emergency Manager reported a communications tower buckled due to severe thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Little Barren3.4 miles9
Pierce3.6 miles9
Liletown4.5 miles9
Newt5.5 miles9
Grab5.7 miles9
Donansburg5.7 miles11
Exie6.9 miles9
Webbs7.6 miles10

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 Q122541760The 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 507770. 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.