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Dwarf, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41739. It stands on Engle Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hazard North quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Dwarf within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

499 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 499 fires within 5 miles of Dwarf between 1997 and 2020, burning about 20,829 acres in total. None started naturally. 109 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 burning192
Missing data/not specified/undetermined149
Arson/incendiarism109
Recreation and ceremony39
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning148 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwarf in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2009Flash FloodDwarf$75,000Approximately 25 homes were flooded along Highway 476 between Dwarf and Bulan. Rain started in the area around 530 am. A local rain gage measured 3 inches of rain between 530 and 630 am.
July 2015Flash FloodDwarf$1,000Water rescues were being performed along Jones Branch Road.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindDwarf-A tree was blown down on KY 550 near the town of Dwarf.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindDwarf-A tree and large limbs were blown down.
August 2001Flash FloodDwarf-Water covered Highway 80 near Pigeon Roost Road. Highway 550 was also under a foot of water.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindDwarf-no account filed
June 1998HailDwarf-no account filed

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
Upper Pidgeonroost (historical)1.7 miles16
Tribbey2.2 miles16
Hardburly2.3 miles16
Whitsett (historical)2.3 miles16
Hiner2.4 miles16
Ary2.4 miles16
Bulan2.9 miles16
Grigsby3.4 miles16

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 DwarfAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5317883The 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 491378. 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.