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Ellington, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kettle-Peytonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Yellow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Waterview quadrangle.

Ellington within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

59 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Ellington between 1998 and 2019, burning about 834 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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
Arson/incendiarism15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
24 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2016Recreation and ceremony13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPAT MELTON
10 April 2017Arson/incendiarism16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGALLOWAY RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Ellington: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale. 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
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ellington in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2014Thunderstorm WindEllington-The Kentucky Mesonet site near Burkesville measured a 59 mph wind gust.
September 2009Heavy RainEllington-The Cumberland County Kentucky Mesonet site measured 1.4 inches of rain in 90 minutes.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Leslie2.2 miles8
Arat2.2 miles8
Tanbark3.2 miles14
Grider3.2 miles8
Burkesville3.6 miles10
Cloyds Landing3.6 miles8
Stalcup4.0 miles14
Bow4.2 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507927. 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.