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Floyd, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Eubank census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42567. The Survey maps it on the Eubank quadrangle.

Floyd within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

18 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Floyd between 1998 and 2015, burning about 86 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
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony2
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
12 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPALLET FIRE
13 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryWARE ROAD FIRE
13 April 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryTROY ADAMS
28 March 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELLISON RIDGE
26 February 2000Smoking15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 February 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Floyd in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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
July 2022Thunderstorm WindFloyd$10,000Barn blown down on the 400 block of Bullock Lane near Eubank.
August 2022Flash FloodFloyd-Flash flood waters reportedly observed carrying trees across Old Waynesburg Road near the 500 block.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFloyd-A tree was reported down SSE of Eubank.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFloyd-A tree was reported down SSE of Eubank.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFloyd-A tree was reported down 3 miles SSW of the Eubank Community.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFloyd-A tree was reported down just south of the Eubank Community.
May 2016HailFloyd-A few ping pong ball size hailstones were mixed with pea size hail.
April 2011HailFloyd-The hail was the size of grapefruits.

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Eubank1.9 miles8
Pulaski3.0 miles9
Estesburg3.2 miles7
Etna4.2 miles9
Mount Zion4.8 miles9
Ansel4.8 miles9
Albia4.9 miles7
Science Hill5.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508019. 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.