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Fenton, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Land Between the Lakes census division. It stands on Barnett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fenton quadrangle. It stands 394 feet above sea level.

Fenton within Trigg 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

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Fenton between 1997 and 2020, burning about 518 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
24 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON 26
30 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaSPRITE
28 May 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON
24 May 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLand Between the Lakes National Recreation AreaFENTON
12 May 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Trigg 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 Fenton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. 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
Fort Payne ChertSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Trigg County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fenton in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
January 2020Tornado (EF1)Fenton$80,000The tornado occurred in heavily wooded terrain on federally protected land. The tornado touched down in the Redd Hollow area (west of the Trace Highway) in the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area. Damage continued east to just south of the Wranglers Campground. The tornado could have crossed into Lake Barkley and Donaldson Creek, but no evidence was found further east. The heaviest area of damage was south of Wranglers Campground, where many dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted. Just south of the track, a microburst occurred where many trees were snapped and uprooted. Peak winds in this tornado were estimated near 105 mph.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindFenton-A trained spotter estimated a wind gust to 65 mph on The Trace near U.S. Highway 68.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindFenton-A wind gust to 61 mph was measured in the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindFenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Trigg 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
Golden Pond4.2 miles13
Ferguson Spring6.1 miles13
Barkley Shores7.5 miles7
Canton7.7 miles7
Cumberland Shores8.4 miles7
Blue Spring Estates8.8 miles7
Shawnee Hills9.0 miles7
Blue Spring9.5 miles7

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 FentonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17492501The 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 507987. 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.