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Cubage, Kentucky

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Tejay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40856. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Varilla quadrangle. It stands 1,178 feet above sea level.

Cubage within Bell County

On record in Cubage

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 27 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

63 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Cubage between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,353 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 13 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
20 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCumberland Gap National Historic ParkCOKE OVEN
17 August 1999Natural242 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2016Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHARLAN/BELL LINE
13 April 2014Debris and open burning75 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCKY BR
9 March 2014Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHANCES CK
9 March 2014Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCUBBAGE HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cubage: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Kentucky Virginia Stone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Mayfield MineClayProducer
Ewing Stone Quarry #1& MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Wheeler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cubage in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2015: 6 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
January 2008Thunderstorm WindCubage$6,000Trees were blown down onto Highway 987 in the Brownies Creek area by wind gusts estimated at 62 mph.
July 2015Flash FloodCubage$1,000Hensley Settlement Road washed out due to flash flooding.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindCubage$1,000One tree down on Highway 987.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCubage-A tree was blown down in Cubage.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCubage-Several trees were blown down or uprooted near Cubage along KY Hwy 987.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindCubage-Large trees were uprooted and a barn was moved from its foundation.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindCubage-Numerous trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Oaks2.4 miles27
Balkan4.2 miles18
Black Snake4.7 miles18
Tejay4.8 miles18
Varilla4.9 miles27
Tuggleville5.0 miles18
Miracle5.3 miles18
Calvin5.6 miles27

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 CubageAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5191981The 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 490455. 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.