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Flag Fork, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Bald Knob census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40601. It lies near Bald Knob. The Survey maps it on the Polsgrove quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

Flag Fork within Franklin 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

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Flag Fork between 2001 and 2014, burning about 64 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
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
15 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2007Natural6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOW PIE
27 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flag Fork in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2017Flash FloodFlag Fork-Lebanon Ridge Road and Goose Creek Road both had 6 to 8 inches of flowing water.
July 2016Flash FloodFlag Fork-Local law enforcement reported Bald Knob Road and Lebanon Road closed due to high water.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFlag Fork-A tree was blown down across Dry Ridge Rd. in Franklin county.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindFlag Fork-Several trees were down near the small town of Flag Fork.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Harp (historical)2.1 miles13
Ottusville2.8 miles13
Polsgrove3.8 miles13
Harvieland5.0 miles13
Honeysuckle (historical)5.2 miles16
Shadrick Ferry (historical)5.3 miles13
Swallowfield5.4 miles13
Bryant5.7 miles16

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 Flag ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5456622The 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 508003. 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.