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Cropper, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Christianburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40065. The Survey maps it on the North Pleasureville quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Cropper within Shelby County

On record in Cropper

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Cropper between 1999 and 2011, burning about 45 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2011Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAISOR
4 October 2008Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cropper in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
May 2008Thunderstorm WindCropper$50,000Thunderstorm winds damaged the fire station in Bagdad. Trees and power lines were downed between Bagdad and Cropper.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindCropper$10,000The county emergency manager reported several power poles down on Pleasureville Road.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindCropper$10,000A large tree fell on a car on Ellis Rd. just south of the Henry county line. Several other trees were downed in the same location.
April 2025Flash FloodCropper-Water was flowing over Eminence Pike near Drane Lane.
May 2022HailCropper-Golf ball-sized hail was observed in the Cropper community in northern Shelby County. Hail caused minor damage to vehicles.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCropper-A 55 knot gust was recorded at the Kentucky Mesonet site in northern Shelby County.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindCropper-The mesonet measured a 51 knot wind gust.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindCropper-Trees and power lines were blown down.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCropper-no account filed
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCropper-no account filed
April 2017HailCropper-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Elmburg2.3 miles10
Pleasureville2.3 miles10
Christianburg2.5 miles10
Old Christianburg2.6 miles10
Mulberry3.4 miles10
Defoe3.7 miles10
Bagdad4.5 miles10
Consolation5.4 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 CropperAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690259The 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 490392. 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.