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Deane, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Colson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41812. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mayking quadrangle. It stands 1,335 feet above sea level.

Deane within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

263 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Deane between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,643 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 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 burning133
Arson/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined51
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOVES BRANCH
9 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRHODES BRANCH
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deane in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2022Thunderstorm WindDeane-A tree was blown down onto a home, briefly trapping the occupants inside. They were freed shortly after by emergency crews. No injuries were reported.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDeane-A tree was blown down on KY-7 near the community of Deane.
April 2017FloodDeane-A citizen observed numerous portions of Kentucky Highway 7 throughout Letcher County with water over the roadway.
May 2009Funnel CloudDeane-The public reported seeing a funnel cloud in Deane.
June 2009Flash FloodDeane-Six to 12 inches of water was flowing across Highway 317 at the Goose Creek Road intersection.
July 2009Flash FloodDeane-The state police reported that Fleming-Neon was flooded and roads in the area were closed as a result.
May 2000HailDeane-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Democrat1.6 miles17
Lucastown2.5 miles17
Thornton Gap2.7 miles17
Polly3.8 miles17
Hemphill3.9 miles18
Camp Branch (historical)4.1 miles17
Craftsville (historical)4.1 miles17
Thornton4.5 miles17

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 DeaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15213256The 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 507826. 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.