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Eighty Eight, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Temple Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42130. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Temple Hill quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Eighty Eight within Barren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Eighty Eight between 1999 and 2016, burning about 122 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined38 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2000Debris and open burning38 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2001Smoking5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 November 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROLLIN HARBINSON RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barren County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eighty Eight: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Congo Bottom ProspectBarium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Barren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eighty Eight in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 2006Thunderstorm WindEighty Eight$25,000A barn was destroyed by straight line winds. This was just north of the track of a tornado that moved from southeast Barren County into southwest Metcalfe County.
September 2022Flash FloodEighty Eight-Kentucky Route 90 (Burkesville Road) was completely covered with water due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Barren 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
Kino2.1 miles10
Nobob3.7 miles8
Temple Hill3.9 miles10
Slick Rock6.1 miles13
Bristletown7.1 miles10
Lecta7.4 miles13
Roseville7.7 miles10
Etoile8.3 miles9

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 Eighty EightAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5349165The 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 491598. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.