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Dan, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Frenchburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40387. It stands on Rough Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ezel quadrangle.

Dan within Menifee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Dan between 1994 and 2020, burning about 284 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
4 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestDEVILS SPA
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITTS ACRES
3 July 2012Natural7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCOMBS
15 May 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRYAN ROAD
6 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGLEN LAWSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menifee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dan: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Barnett ShaleClayProspect
Zag ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Menifee County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dan in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 2 hail. 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 2019HailDan-An NWS Employee observed penny sized hail in far eastern Menifee County between Frenchburg and West Liberty.
June 2004HailDan-There were large quantities of hail falling with diameters up to the size of quarters.

Every storm recorded in Menifee 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
Korea1.4 miles14
Artville2.2 miles14
Craft (historical)2.5 miles14
Big Woods2.5 miles14
Back (historical)2.5 miles14
Pine Grove (historical)3.9 miles14
Wellington3.9 miles12
Scranton4.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517319. 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.