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Flippin, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1931 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Fountain Run census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42167. It stands on South Fork Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gamaliel quadrangle. It stands 735 feet above sea level.

Flippin within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Flippin between 1999 and 2014, burning about 90 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2008Recreation and ceremony14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 February 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOARDERS FIRE
18 February 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOMER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Flippin: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Dolomite. 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
Fountain RunZinc, DolomiteProspect1970

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flippin in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 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
February 2025Flash FloodFlippin-Multiple county and state roads were closed across Monroe County due to flash flooding and high water.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindFlippin-A tree fell across Flippin-Lamb Road to the east of Flippin.
August 2010Flash FloodFlippin-Numerous roads were flooded in Flippin. One water rescue was reported. An estimated 2 to 3 inches of rain fell in 2 hours.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindFlippin-Two trees were blown down at HWY 100 and Stringtown Flippin Rd.
October 2009Tornado (EF2)Flippin-The tornado touched down near Flippin at the intersection of Fountain Run Rd and State Highway 678. The tornado did EF-1 damage from there to near Mud Lick before strengthening and causing EF-2 damage to homes, barns and trees. The highest concentration of damage was from Rockbridge Road and Bray School Road to North Willow Springs Road near. Near the end of the path, the tornado width was one half mile.||This is a very rural area of the county and homes and buildings were sparse.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindFlippin-Trees were downed.
April 2006HailFlippin-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindFlippin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Pikesville (historical)1.5 miles11
Jeffrey2.8 miles8
Gum Tree2.9 miles11
Lamb3.0 miles9
Emberton3.6 miles11
Fountain Run4.9 miles11
Freetown4.9 miles11
Mud Lick5.4 miles8

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 FlippinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690408The 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 492255. 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.