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Fairdealing, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fairdealing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42025. The Survey maps it on the Fairdealing quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Fairdealing within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

13 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fairdealing between 1999 and 2012, burning about 207 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE LOGS
28 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLIVER
3 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLIVE HAMLETT RD.
17 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 February 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 February 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 Fairdealing: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
West-Of-Highway ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fairdealing in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 7 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 lightning. 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
May 2010Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$200,000A marina and campground along Kentucky Lake sustained moderate to major damage from a microburst. One houseboat sank, and several other boats were damaged. The bow of a sailboat was wedged under a dock, and a pontoon boat broke away from its slip. Three piers were heavily damaged. Roofing material was blown off a restaurant, mainly on one side of the building. The canopy of an outdoor seating area was blown down. One of the marina's gas pumps was left partially underwater. Waves estimated about five feet high caused some of the damage. The damage area was about one mile long and one-quarter mile wide.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$40,000A microburst with 85 mph winds struck a subdivision on Kentucky Lake. The damage area was about 0.4 mile long. A privately owned boat dock and pontoon boat were blown upside down. A couple of dozen large trees were uprooted.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$35,000Numerous trees were down. Several large trees were snapped off or uprooted. Most of the tree damage was in a subdivision on Kentucky Lake, where one tree fell on a house and caused significant roof damage. A shed was destroyed by a fallen tree.
June 2007LightningFairdealing$6,000Lightning struck a house, starting a fire.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$5,000Trees were down near Fairdealing. Numerous small limbs, an inch or less in size, were down along Highway 402 between Aurora and Hardin.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$2,000no account filed
January 2023Thunderstorm WindFairdealing$1,000A metal carport was blown into some trees.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindFairdealing-A wind gust to 63 mph was measured at a personal weather station.
April 2011HailFairdealing-The large hail was associated with the same storm that tracked near and just south of Benton.
June 2001HailFairdealing-Nickel size hail was reported in Fairdealing.
July 2023HailFairdealing-no account filed
October 2007HailFairdealing-no account filed
July 2007HailFairdealing-no account filed
April 2006HailFairdealing-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
Olive3.4 miles13
Hamlet (historical)3.5 miles13
Brien4.0 miles15
Birmingham4.2 miles15
Glade4.3 miles13
Walnut Grove4.4 miles13
Dogtown4.5 miles13
Monkey Den (historical)4.9 miles13

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 FairdealingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5430102The 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 507968. 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.