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Daisy, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Daisy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41731. It stands on Right Fork Hicks Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tilford quadrangle. 1,584 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 965 feet above sea level.

Daisy within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

178 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Daisy between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14,057 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 39 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 burning70
Missing data/not specified/undetermined47
Arson/incendiarism39
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresDaniel Boone National ForestORCHARD
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER RIVER RD
16 September 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 August 2014Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFORT BRANCH
31 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOLLY HOLLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daisy in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2019: 1 hail, 1 debris flow, 1 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
February 2019Heavy RainDaisy-Kentucky Transportation Cabinet officials reported a landslide on Kentucky Highway 1165 between Viper and Cornettsville, causing the roadway to become blocked for several weeks. This was likely caused by 1 to 1.5 inches of rain on top of saturated terrain.
May 2018Debris FlowDaisy-A local media outlet reported a mudslide, resulting in a downed tree across a roadway south of Viper.
June 2006HailDaisy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Cornettsville1.7 miles16
Beehive (historical)2.4 miles14
Slemp2.6 miles14
Wentz2.8 miles14
Fuson (historical)3.0 miles16
Beech Fork (historical)3.5 miles13
Middle Fork (historical)4.1 miles16
Fusonia4.2 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 DaisyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5209668The 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 511699. 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.