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Flournoy, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Morganfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42437. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle.

Flournoy within Union County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Flournoy between 2004 and 2017, burning about 59 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 December 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryH AND H
12 November 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALI FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Union 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
Breckinridge Center0.9 miles13
Saint Vincent1.3 miles13
Waverly2.8 miles13
Morganfield3.0 miles14
Chapman3.2 miles14
Hitesville4.3 miles17
Boxville5.0 miles13
McClure (historical)5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 492269. 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.