Cyclone, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It lies in ZIP code area 42166. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Lick quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Cyclone within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1953 USGS Sulphur Lick quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

22 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Cyclone between 1999 and 2019, burning about 491 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
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 September 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SLATE CREEK FIRE
6 April 2010	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 April 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 March 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CARTER FIRE
27 March 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEAUMONT HILL FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cyclone in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Cyclone	-	This short-lived tornado was only on the ground for approximately 1.3 miles, touching down in far southern Metcalfe County, and lifting in far northern Monroe County. Along its path of about 3 minutes in duration, the tornado had a maximum width of 150 yards and did damage to a metal shed, minor damage to the roof and porch of two separate homes, moved a tobacco barn off its foundation, and snapped numerous trees and tree limbs.\|\|The tornado first touched down in extreme southern Metcalfe County about 1.2 miles west-northwest of the town of Cyclone around 701 pm CDT. The tornado moved over primarily rural pasture and cropland into far northern Monroe County, where it lifted about one third of a mile south of Cyclone around 704 pm CDT. \|\|This EF-1 tornado produced top wind speeds of 105 mph.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cyclone	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Persimmon	3.1 miles	9
Rockbridge	3.7 miles	9
Sulphur Lick	3.8 miles	9
Forkton	6.5 miles	13
Bushong	6.6 miles	13
Mount Hermon	7.8 miles	8
Mud Lick	7.9 miles	8
Grandview	8.2 miles	13

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 Cyclone	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690282	The 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 507803. 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.