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Crayne, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the East Crittenden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42064. It stands on Crayne Knob. The Survey maps it on the Marion quadrangle. 161 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Crayne within Crittenden County

Population over time

2 figures

Crayne fell from 173 to 161 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010173
2020161-12 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 20 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

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Crayne between 1998 and 2017, burning about 102 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 June 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 February 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNIPPER ROAD
28 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 December 1999Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Crayne: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Zinc, Lead, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc. 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
Bryant ProspectCobalt, Nickel, ZincProspect1901
Pigmy MineFluorine-Fluorite, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Wallingford ProspectCobalt, Manganese, Nickel, ZincOccurrence1898
Western Kentucky DistrictFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, SilverPast Producer1914
Blue MineFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Eva Tanguay MineFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, LeadPast Producer
Lafayette MineFluorine-Fluorite, ZincPast Producer1888, 1900
Marble GroupFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspectUnderground
Vinson DepositFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect1962
Beavers Fluorite ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crayne in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
January 2000Tornado (F3)Crayne3 hurt, $5,000,000Although the tornado tracked about 15 miles through the county with estimated top winds of 160 MPH, damage was relatively light due to the rural nature of the land. Based on aerial surveys, structures that were heavily damaged or destroyed included 85 homes, 5 to 10 businesses, and 50 to 80 barns and outbuildings. Three people in the Crayne area were transported to a hospital for non life-threatening injuries. About 35 National Guard personnel were deployed to Crittenden County, primarily for damage assessment and security operations. An emergency shelter was opened to accomodate roughly 25 homeless persons.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindCrayne$20,000Several trees and some power lines were reported down across the county.
April 1998HailCrayne-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crittenden 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
Crooked Creek (historical)1.4 miles20
Lilydale1.5 miles18
Fredonia (historical)2.5 miles18
Centerville (historical)3.0 miles18
View3.0 miles21
Mexico3.2 miles18
Sisco Chapel (historical)3.5 miles21
Marion4.3 miles20

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 CrayneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5183044The 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 490310. 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.