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Craintown, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ewing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41041. It stands on Hill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elizaville quadrangle.

Craintown within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Craintown in 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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 April 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming 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 Craintown: 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
Carpenter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craintown in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 1 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
July 2000Thunderstorm WindCraintown$5,000A barn was blown down by strong winds associated with a severe thunderstorm.
September 2018FloodCraintown-Water was observed covering Martha Mills Road south of Flemingsburg.
May 2007HailCraintown-Dime to quarter sized hail in the Hilltop community.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Elizaville3.0 miles8
Tilton3.2 miles6
Hill Top3.4 miles6
Flemingsburg3.6 miles8
Battle Run4.0 miles6
Nepton4.2 miles8
Bald Hill4.3 miles10
Olive Branch4.9 miles6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 490276. 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.