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Dunraven, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Krypton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41754. It stands on Rocklick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Krypton quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Dunraven within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

611 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 611 fires within 5 miles of Dunraven between 1997 and 2020, burning about 20,437 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 133 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 burning247
Missing data/not specified/undetermined178
Arson/incendiarism133
Recreation and ceremony41
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERIFFS COURT
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dunraven in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Flash FloodDunraven$8,000A car was swept away in Hazard.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Napfor0.7 miles13
Campbell (historical)0.8 miles13
Olivers (historical)0.9 miles13
Krypton2.0 miles13
Yerkes2.0 miles13
Busy2.0 miles13
Butterfly2.0 miles13
Lead Branch (historical)2.5 miles13

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 DunravenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5315651The 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 511960. 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.