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Custer, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40140. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle. It stands 820 feet above sea level.

Custer within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

31 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Custer between 1998 and 2019, burning about 192 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
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTERRETT RD. FIRE
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLUE FORK ROAD
7 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2012Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1073

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

11 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Custer in 11 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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
November 2019Flash FloodCuster$10,000Swift water was running over parts of Highway 690 near Custer. A vehicle was submerged in water on Rosetta Corners Road also near Custer. Numerous other roads were also flooded in the county.
May 2016HailCuster-The public reported penny sized hail.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindCuster-Tree limbs were reported down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCuster-Thunderstorm winds toppled several trees near Custer.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindCuster-Tree reported down across Highway 86 near Custer.
December 2002Flash FloodCuster-A bridge was covered by water on Highway 690.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindCuster-Trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2012HailCuster-no account filed
January 2008HailCuster-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindCuster-no account filed
May 2004HailCuster-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Dyer2.8 miles18
Graysville3.3 miles16
High Plains3.3 miles14
Woodrow3.5 miles11
Stinnettsville4.1 miles16
Corners4.1 miles14
Buras4.1 miles11
Rosetta4.1 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 CusterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5196295The 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 490511. 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.