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Dugansville, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Salvisa-McAfee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40372. It stands on Little Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the McBrayer quadrangle.

Dugansville within Mercer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dugansville between 2002 and 2004, burning about 125 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 March 2002Recreation and ceremony45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mercer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dugansville in 1 storm report in 2000: 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
April 2000Tornado (F1)Dugansville$37,500Two vortices were spotted near Tablow on the Washington/Mercer County line. The tornadoes destroyed a barn, and damaged a house and a garage near Tablow. One half mile east of Tablow along Highway 926, a house deck was destroyed, a large tree was uprooted, and several other trees were damaged. In the town of Dugansville, a house received roof and chimney damage. Several barns were damaged there, and there was also some tree damage.

Every storm recorded in Mercer 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
Duncan2.1 miles11
Terrapin2.5 miles11
Grapevine (historical)3.1 miles11
Mayo3.2 miles11
Hickory Grove (historical)3.2 miles11
Kirkwood4.2 miles11
Cornishville5.4 miles11
Lucto (historical)5.5 miles11

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 Q122553762The 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 507883. 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.