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Engle, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Krypton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41727. It stands on Hollybush Branch. The Survey maps it on the Haddix quadrangle.

Engle within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

454 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 454 fires within 5 miles of Engle between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21,918 acres in total. None started naturally. 119 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 burning190
Arson/incendiarism119
Missing data/not specified/undetermined116
Recreation and ceremony27
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAIRPORT WAY RD.
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOST MTN #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Engle in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEngle$1,000A large tree limb was blown down on Lost Creek Road near Thomasville Lane. The tree also brought down nearby powerlines as it fell, blocking the entire road.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindEngle$1,000A tree was blown down near KY Hwy 15 south of Ned.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEngle$1,000A tree was blown down near the Wendell H Ford airport.
May 2025HailEngle-Nickel to quarter-sized hail was observed at the Wendell H. Ford Airport north of Hazard.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindEngle-Trees were reported to have been blown down at the Wendell H. Ford Airport north of Hazard.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindEngle-A tree was blown down and onto KY-15 near the County Line Community Church, blocking one of the lanes.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindEngle-A tree was blown down and across a road in the Coalfields Regional Industrial Park. A mobile home nearby was also damaged.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindEngle-A trained spotter reported an estimated thunderstorm wind gust of 58 mph near Engle.
September 2011Heavy RainEngle-A trained spotter reported that 2 inches of rain had fallen in Engle since 730 pm on Sunday, September 4th.
June 2011Flash FloodEngle-The road at Typo was closed due to flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Miller (historical)1.5 miles15
Jones (historical)2.7 miles16
Mudlick (historical)2.7 miles13
Dice2.8 miles16
Manuel3.0 miles13
Lamont3.4 miles13
Stacy3.4 miles15
Sixteen (historical)4.0 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507941. 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.