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Dogwood, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Symsonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42027. The Survey maps it on the Symsonia quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Dogwood within Graves County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Dogwood between 1998 and 2017, burning about 111 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning3
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 1999Smoking3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 August 2012Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMOUNTAIN R
23 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2007Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Graves 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 Dogwood: 1 past producer. 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
Dunning MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Graves County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dogwood in 1 storm report in 2017: 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 2017Thunderstorm WindDogwood$5,000About a mile north of Symsonia, a few trees were uprooted. One of the trees was down on a home. Several miles south-southwest of Symsonia, numerous trees were snapped and uprooted near the intersection of Kentucky Highways 131 and 301.

Every storm recorded in Graves 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
Kaler1.6 miles11
Boaz3.1 miles12
Symsonia3.9 miles11
Viola4.0 miles12
Westplains4.2 miles13
Clear Springs4.4 miles13
West Viola5.0 miles12
Folsomdale5.2 miles12

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 DogwoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690322The 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 507863. 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.