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Dana, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Betsy Layne-Stanville census division. It stands on Spurlock Fork. The Survey maps it on the Harold quadrangle. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Dana within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

292 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Dana between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,467 acres in total. None started naturally. 77 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 burning111
Arson/incendiarism77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Recreation and ceremony37
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHOP BRANCH
9 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBANNER
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
5 September 2007Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATER
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRACKER BOTTOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dana: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Allen PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dana in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 WindDana$10,000Several trees were snapped and a home suffered minor damage in Dana.
May 2009Flash FloodDana$10,000A mobile home was washed away in the Martin area due to flood waters. A family of six was waiting to be rescued on high ground but was able to evacuate from their mobile home.
April 2007Flash FloodDana$5,000Two feet of water flowing on Prater Creek Road.
August 2020Flash FloodDana-A car became stranded in the roadway due to high waters near Orchard Branch off of Highway 426 in the community of Dana. The vehicle was rescued before deputies arrived to help.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Honaker2.2 miles16
Tram2.7 miles16
Stanville2.7 miles16
Justell2.8 miles16
Ivel2.8 miles16
Arkansas3.0 miles16
Betsy Layne3.1 miles16
Amba3.1 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 DanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17512922The 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 507809. 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.