Era, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Crofton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42217. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dawson Springs SE quadrangle.

Era within Christian County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1909 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:48000
1911 USGS Dawson Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Dawson Springs SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

18 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Era between 1999 and 2019, burning about 235 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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/undetermined	8
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 April 2001	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 March 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 March 2010	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 March 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CROFTONO
22 March 2009	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 March 2019	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HARMONY GROVE
6 February 2001	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Christian County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Era in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2022: 2 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2010	Tornado (EF2)	Era	$300,000	The highest concentrations of damage were where the tornado crossed State Route 1348 west of Crofton and Route 407 north of Crofton. Three unoccupied mobile homes were severely damaged or destroyed on Route 1348 west of Crofton. On Route 407, two mobile homes suffered moderate to major damage and a garage was levelled. The roof was peeled off one of the mobile homes. This tornado was very near the site of an EF3 tornado in Mannington just over a year earlier. One of the victims whose home was destroyed in the previous year's tornado relocated to a new spot, only to have her new home receive minor damage in this tornado. Several barns along the damage path received minor to moderate damage. Hundreds of trees were uprooted or snapped, particularly on Route 407 and nearby U.S. Highway 41. The tornado damage path began along Highway 109 and ended just after crossing the Pennyrile Parkway. The EF-2 tornado damage was near the end of the damage path along Route 407 and U.S. Highway 41, where hundreds of trees were uprooted or snapped. The average path width was 275 yards. Peak winds were estimated near 120 mph. The supercell that spawned this tornado later produced a separate brief tornado in Hopkins County.
February 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Era	$60,000	Concentrated straight-line wind damage occurred along Highway 800. Several trees were uprooted, several houses lost shingles, and a couple of barn roofs were damaged. Several greenhouses sustained roof and structural damage. Peak winds were estimated near 85 mph. The path width was about three-quarters of a mile, and the path length was two miles.
April 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Era	-	A witness reported a brief tornado touchdown in a field. Some items were tossed around in the witness's back yard.

Every storm recorded in Christian 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Palestine (historical)	2.2 miles	8
Hawkins	3.9 miles	13
Bainbridge	4.3 miles	6
Adams (historical)	4.4 miles	12
Sinking Fork	5.3 miles	8
Castleberry (historical)	5.7 miles	12
Crofton	5.8 miles	12
Kelly	6.1 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507946. 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.