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Elna, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 41219. It stands on Andylick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Redbush quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Elna within Johnson County

On record in Elna

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

194 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Elna between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,068 acres in total. None started naturally. 65 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use3
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 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROSS CREEK
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOW BRANCH ROAD
14 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 June 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryCANTRELL'S CREEK
3 May 2018Arson/incendiarism62 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMINE FK.
21 May 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySTONECOAL RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Elna: 3 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mjm MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cantrill Branch ShaleClayProspect
Flat Gap ShaleClayProspect
Shack Branch ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elna in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2022: 2 flash flood, 2 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 2012Thunderstorm WindElna$6,000A tree fell on a house causing minor damage.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindElna$3,000A tree was blown down onto power lines, causing the tree to then catch on fire. The incident occurred in the Redbush and Elna vicinity.
May 2011Flash FloodElna-Two feet of water was across one lane of Hwy 172 at Flat Gap.
May 2011Flash FloodElna-Flash flooding occurred in Red Bush.
June 2006HailElna-Hail covered the ground.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Redbush2.3 miles17
Fuget2.4 miles17
Flatgap4.3 miles17
Hargis4.7 miles17
Manila5.1 miles17
Keaton5.3 miles17
Volga5.3 miles17
Winifred6.2 miles17

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 ElnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5367008The 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 507934. 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.