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Crider, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fredonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42411. It lies near Farmer Knob. The Survey maps it on the Crider quadrangle. It stands 469 feet above sea level.

Crider within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Crider between 1999 and 2016, burning about 49 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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 ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
24 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2016Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryR WHITE ROAD
5 March 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2014Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Crider: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-Barite. 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
Tabb Group Fluorspar MinesFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Barium-BariteProducer1903
Bright MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Eddie Crowder MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Gilbert Williamson DepositFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
S.L.Crook MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Schwench MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator Main ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator No.1 ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Senator No.2 ShaftFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Walker Fluorspar MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crider in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 4 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
May 2024Tornado (EF2)Crider4 hurt, $500,000An EF-3 tornado (max of EF-2 in Caldwell County) began northeast of Eddyville in Lyon County before crossing into Caldwell County near Pleasant Valley Rd. The tornado tracked east-northeastward through the entirety of Caldwell County, crossing over into Hopkins County north of I-69 and south of Young Cemetery Rd. The tornado briefly weakened northwest of Princeton. It then strengthened producing EF-2 damage north of Princeton near KY-293 N, blowing apart a manufactured home. Additional structures, trees, and power lines were damaged in Caldwell County. For Caldwell County, 4 people were injured and one person (54m, indirect) suffered a heart attack while cleaning up debris the following day, passing away as a result. Peak estimated winds with the Caldwell County portion of the tornado were 130 mph.
May 2010Flash FloodCrider$75,000Severe flash flooding was reported in Princeton. Most streets in Princeton were under at least two feet of water. Police vehicles were unable to navigate the flooded streets, so officers used city street department trucks instead. Several vehicles that ventured into the flooding were disabled in floodwaters and had to be towed. Several homes were flooded with two feet of water, necessitating evacuations.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindCrider$10,000no account filed
November 2017Thunderstorm WindCrider$4,000Trees were down near Highway 91 a few miles northwest of Princeton.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindCrider-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
White Sulphur2.0 miles15
Bakers3.7 miles18
Hickory Grove3.8 miles18
Dulaney4.2 miles15
Crowtown4.7 miles15
Farmersville4.7 miles15
Bethany (historical)5.1 miles15
Flat Rock5.3 miles15

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 CriderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690256The 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 490341. 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.