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Craycraft, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It lies near Concord Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. It stands 948 feet above sea level.

Craycraft within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

30 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Craycraft between 1998 and 2016, burning about 172 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning15
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2

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
26 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2016Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE OAK
11 April 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Craycraft: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Patton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craycraft in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2017: 2 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
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCraycraft-Local law enforcement reported that severe thunderstorm winds brought down a tree, blocking portions of Russell Springs Road east of Columbia.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindCraycraft-A law enforcement official reported trees down.

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Oak Grove (historical)1.0 miles10
Concord (historical)1.1 miles10
Ozark1.8 miles10
Gentrys Mill2.7 miles10
Garlin3.0 miles9
Christine3.3 miles10
Joppa3.6 miles10
Purdy4.1 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.

Wikipedia article on CraycraftAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5183031The 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 507775. 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.