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Crutchfield, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42041. The Survey maps it on the Crutchfield quadrangle. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Crutchfield within Fulton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Crutchfield between 1997 and 2016, burning about 65 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning1
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
25 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance11 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMURCHERSON ROAD FIRE
16 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCORNFIELD
6 August 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRUTHFIELD
27 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryFIELDS RD
24 August 2007Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGH VOLTS
19 April 1999Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fulton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crutchfield in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCrutchfield$2,000A barn roof was blown off along Highway 924.
December 2024FloodCrutchfield-Water was reported on KY-94 near Jeffress Rd. Radar estimated rainfall was around 1-1.5 inches.
March 2005HailCrutchfield-Quarter-size hail fell along U.S. Highway 51 at the Fulton/Hickman County line.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindCrutchfield-Several trees were blown down.
May 2021HailCrutchfield-no account filed
May 2019HailCrutchfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fulton 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
Harmony (historical)2.4 miles9
Union (historical)3.1 miles9
Ebenezer (historical)4.6 miles18
Riceville4.9 miles9
Cayce5.5 miles18
Liberty (historical)5.6 miles18
Fulton6.0 miles10
Jordan7.4 miles18

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 CrutchfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690273The 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 490433. 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.