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Crawford, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Greenmount-Langnau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40741. The Survey maps it on the Portersburg quadrangle.

Crawford within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Crawford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,508 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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 September 2007Natural35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINCAID
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWN BRANCH
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crawford in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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
June 2021Flash FloodCrawford-The Laurel County dispatch reported a water rescue along Highway 578 in the 800 block.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCrawford-Trees were blown down along Hwy 578 between mile markers 5 and 9.

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
Langnau1.3 miles13
McWhorter3.7 miles13
Maplesville5.1 miles15
Greenmount5.6 miles15
Atlanta5.8 miles15
Marydell6.3 miles13
Brock6.4 miles13
Laurel River Neighborhood7.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511628. 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.