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Egypt, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40402. It stands on Woods Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle. It stands 1,135 feet above sea level.

Egypt within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

289 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Egypt between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,286 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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 burning127
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Arson/incendiarism50
Recreation and ceremony31
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUCKLEBERRY FORK
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egypt in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
September 2020FloodEgypt$2,000Water was reported over KY-421 near Egypt Penecostal Church.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindEgypt$500Trees were blown down and an outbuilding was damaged near the community of Egypt.
May 2018HailEgypt-Emergency Management reported nickel sized hail in Egypt.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindEgypt-Large limbs and debris had to be removed from Highway 3630 in the communities of Annville, Tyner and Egypt. A large tree was also blocking the road at Annville.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindEgypt-One tree down on Highway 421 near Egypt, and another blown down near Gravel Lick.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Stringtown (historical)1.8 miles13
Welchburg1.9 miles13
High Knob1.9 miles13
Tyner2.3 miles13
Zekes Point2.6 miles13
Mildred3.3 miles13
Maulden3.3 miles13
Herd3.7 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 EgyptAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5348298The 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 512017. 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.