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Depoy, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle. It stands 499 feet above sea level.

Depoy within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

61 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Depoy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony15
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
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
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestry503 COMPLEX
7 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Depoy in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 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 1998HailDepoy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Luzerne1.6 miles16
New Cypress2.5 miles16
Vernal Grove (historical)2.5 miles13
Sharon (historical)2.6 miles16
Gordon (historical)3.0 miles13
Nebo3.0 miles16
Graham3.2 miles14
Greenville3.4 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 DepoyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5260815The 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 490823. 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.