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Dougan Town, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burkesville quadrangle.

Dougan Town within Cumberland County

On record in Dougan Town

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Dougan Town between 1998 and 2019, burning about 579 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony8
Arson/incendiarism4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
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
26 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Recreation and ceremony24 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILSON
21 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2001Smoking3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOOSE CREE
5 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dougan Town: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Cadmium, Germanium. 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
BurkesvilleZinc, Cadmium, GermaniumPast ProducerSphalerite
Grider MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dougan Town in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
February 2025Flash FloodDougan Town-Multiple roads in Cumberland County were closed as a result of flash flooding.
May 2024Tornado (EF0)Dougan Town-The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey and found a|tornado occurred on Sunday, May 26th, 2024 about 3 miles north of|Burkesville. The tornado started just to the east of Old Columbia|Road along Little Renox Creek in fields behind a residence. A few|trees were uprooted consistent with EF0 85 mph strength. The|tornado then continued across Columbia Road and|did extensive tree damage along a hillside to the east of the|highway. Tree damage consistent with EF1 90 mph strength was|observed on the hillside just to the east of the highway. The|tornado then lifted with no observed damage via drone footage to|the east of the hill.
May 2017Flash FloodDougan Town-State officials received many reports of high water over many roadways across the county.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Lewis Creek (historical)0.7 miles10
Burkesville0.8 miles10
Bow2.8 miles10
Grider3.3 miles8
Little Renox (historical)3.6 miles8
Bakerton3.7 miles10
Claywell4.1 miles10
Ellington4.3 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122560350The 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 491055. 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.