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Crockett, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Elkfork-Ophir census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Hinson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dingus quadrangle. It stands 912 feet above sea level.

Crockett within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

84 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Crockett between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,489 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning35
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 2001Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2020Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 589
7 April 2012Debris and open burning43 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHOP BRANC
6 April 2018Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHOP BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crockett in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 hail, 2 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
March 1997Flash FloodCrockett$150,000no account filed
May 2019HailCrockett-Dispatch reported penny sized hail in Crockett.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCrockett-Numerous trees, large limbs, and power lines were blown down.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindCrockett-Numerous trees were blown down county wide.
April 2011HailCrockett-The hail was the size of a walnut.
April 2015HailCrockett-no account filed
April 2015HailCrockett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Moon2.4 miles16
Elkfork2.7 miles14
Middle Fork (historical)2.8 miles16
Jeptha3.0 miles16
Cindas Creek3.8 miles16
Elamton5.0 miles14
Mima5.3 miles16
Dingus5.4 miles16

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 CrockettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5187345The 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 507784. 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.