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Dehart, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wrigley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Shoals Branch. The Survey maps it on the West Liberty quadrangle.

Dehart within Morgan 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

62 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Dehart between 1997 and 2020, burning about 660 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony7
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
19 September 2008Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2012Natural6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestYOCUM
5 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CREEK
9 April 2005Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestELM LOG
7 April 2000Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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 Dehart: 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 Morgan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dehart in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2020Flash FloodDehart$2,000Several rounds of heavy rain resulted in the closure of Highway 772 due to high water about 5 miles NW of West Liberty.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindDehart-Dispatch reported several trees blown down from about 6 miles northwest of West Liberty to near the city limits. This includes trees down on Kentucky Highway 7, McClain Way, Greasy Creek Road, and Kentucky Highway 772.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindDehart-Trees were blown down on Hwy 844.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindDehart-Trees down.
May 2009HailDehart-no account filed
May 2009Funnel CloudDehart-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Fannin (historical)0.8 miles14
Perry Bend (historical)0.9 miles14
Yocum1.5 miles14
Twentysix1.9 miles14
Zag2.1 miles14
Licking River2.5 miles14
Kellacey2.9 miles14
Pomp3.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511777. 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.