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Dabney, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Somerset census division. It lies near May Knob. The Survey maps it on the Bobtown quadrangle. It stands 1,070 feet above sea level.

Dabney within Pulaski County

On record in Dabney

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

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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Dabney between 1998 and 2019, burning about 158 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony2
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
7 April 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWARE ROAD FIRE
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRUNDY
19 March 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOODHAVEN DRIVE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

12 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dabney in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindDabney$5,000According to reports received by WKYT and the Commonwealth Journal in Somerset, KY, a residential trailer located on Hwy 1317 three miles northwest of Shopville sustained major damage due to thunderstorm wind gusts.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Dabney$2,000A small tornado downed trees, damaged crops, and blew down a sign.
May 2017Flash FloodDabney$1,000Flash flooding of a small stream occurred along KY Hwy 39, causing the road to be covered with flowing water. Two vehicles became stranded while attempting to drive through the flooded roadway.
May 2017FloodDabney$1,000Kentucky Hwy 39 near Dabney was closed for a period of time due to flooding.
April 2015FloodDabney$1,000Several inches of water were observed flowing across North Harper Rd.
December 2015FloodDabney$1,000An inch of water was seen flowing across the corner of Pine Hill Road and Barnes Road.
December 2015FloodDabney$1,000An inch of water was seen flowing across the road between Barnesburg Road and Welborn road.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindDabney$100The Pulaski County Mesonet station in the community of Dabney reported a 56 mph gust.
January 2022Heavy RainDabney-The Kentucky Mesonet station in Pulaski County (DABN) measured 4.19 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022.
March 2021Heavy RainDabney-The Kentucky Mesonet station northeast of Somerset measured 2.04 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindDabney-A tree was blown down and onto a house.
September 2009Flash FloodDabney-Six to eight inches of water was flowing into one lane of Highway 39 in the Nelson Valley area.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Coin2.2 miles9
Bobtown2.4 miles9
Barnesburg2.7 miles9
Mark2.8 miles9
Welborn2.9 miles13
Etna3.3 miles9
Dry Hole (historical)3.4 miles13
Sugar Hill3.9 miles9

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 DabneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5207501The 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 507805. 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.