Edsel, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Isonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41180. It stands on Mud Lick. The Survey maps it on the Mazie quadrangle. It stands 791 feet above sea level.

Edsel within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Mazie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

57 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Edsel between 1997 and 2019, burning about 890 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning	24
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
22 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 April 2011	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CANES CREEK ROAD
4 April 1997	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 April 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WALLOW HOLE
27 April 2001	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edsel in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
July 2015	Flash Flood	Edsel	$1,000	Blaines trace road was washed out due to flash flooding. A fence was also torn down by the flood.

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Blaines Trace (historical)	0.0 miles	14
Fielden	2.3 miles	14
Stephens	2.9 miles	15
Dobbins	2.9 miles	15
Halcom	4.2 miles	14
Gomez (historical)	4.7 miles	15
Sarah	4.7 miles	14
Culver	4.9 miles	14

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 Edsel	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5340279	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 507914. 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.