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Florress, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Elkfork-Ophir census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Sugar Camp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lenox quadrangle.

Florress within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

144 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Florress between 1998 and 2020, burning about 2,246 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Arson/incendiarism26
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking1
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
30 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST ROUTE 1081
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2013Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 460-1081 INTERSECTION
9 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2014Debris and open burning85 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEAR BRANCH HWY 437
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

4 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florress in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 2 flood, 2 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
February 2021FloodFlorress$15,000Report received from MPing: River/Creek is overflowing and resulting in flooding of cropland/yard/and or basement.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFlorress-Trees were reported down on Hwy-364 (Rockhouse Creek Road), near the community of Cottle. The exact location along the road was not given.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindFlorress-Trees were downed at the intersection of Lacy Creek Road and Highway 364 near West Liberty.
February 2020FloodFlorress-A citizen reported that water from the Licking River poured onto a road south of Florress, resulting in vehicles being stranded.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Cottle1.4 miles14
Tarkiln (historical)1.7 miles12
Matthew2.2 miles12
White Oak2.3 miles12
Jones Creek (historical)2.3 miles14
Rockhouse (historical)2.5 miles12
Gordon Ford3.2 miles14
Elamton3.3 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122589048The 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 508018. 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.