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Fall Rock, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Morgan Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. It stands 1,024 feet above sea level.

Fall Rock within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

337 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 337 fires within 5 miles of Fall Rock between 1993 and 2020, burning about 13,114 acres in total. None started naturally. 85 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 burning140
Arson/incendiarism85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined83
Recreation and ceremony22
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
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
5 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINCAID
25 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fall Rock in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 2 hail, 1 flash flood, 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
April 2021HailFall Rock$3,000An A & B Quick Stop #5 employee reported quarter to half dollar-sized hail at the intersection of US-421 and KY-11 just north of Fall Rock. The hail dented a vehicle at the convenience store.
June 2014Flash FloodFall Rock$1,000Flash flooding from a small creek flooded at least two homes.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindFall Rock-Two trees were blown down along Hwy 421 between mile markers 21 and 22.
November 2007HailFall Rock-Nickel and pea size hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Bernice2.0 miles13
Burning Springs2.7 miles13
Sidell2.7 miles13
Laurel Creek2.7 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)2.8 miles13
Mill Pond2.8 miles13
Tanksley4.1 miles13
Gray Fork (historical)4.3 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 Fall RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5432102The 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 512119. 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.