Drake, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alvaton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42122. It stands on Middle Fork Drakes Creek. The Survey maps it on the Drake quadrangle. It stands 551 feet above sea level.

Drake within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1921 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500
1923 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Nashville quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Drake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Bowling Green quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Drake between 1999 and 2016, burning about 7 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 ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 April 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 March 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 October 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 October 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	DEWEY LAKE RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Drake in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Drake	-	There was a tree down on Woodburn Allen Springs Road.
July 2015	Flood	Drake	-	Several rounds of thunderstorms over 2 days brought Drakes Creek at Alvaton above flood stage. The river crested at 24.35 feet, 2.35 feet above flood stage, during the early morning hours of July 4th.
July 2015	Flood	Drake	-	Heavy rainfall during early July resulted in significant rises on Drakes Creek near Alvaton. The river rose to 23.14 feet, 1.14 feet above flood stage, early on July 6th. The river then dropped below flood stage later that morning.
February 2014	Flash Flood	Drake	-	Over 2 1/2 inches of rain fell on partially frozen ground across Warren County within a 6 hour period. With such poor drainage, water covered many roads in the Bowling Green area, rendering some impassable. State Highway 622 was closed for a short time near Plano.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Drake	-	Multiple trees were blown down near Drake.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
White Chapel (historical)	1.0 miles	14
Old Union (historical)	1.6 miles	14
Boyce	1.6 miles	14
Matlock	3.0 miles	14
Plano	3.1 miles	16
Alvaton	4.0 miles	13
Old Trinity (historical)	4.4 miles	16
White Kitchen (historical)	5.1 miles	16

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 Drake	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690330	The 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 507874. 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.