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Fogertown, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Shib Branch. The Survey maps it on the Portersburg quadrangle.

Fogertown within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

215 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Fogertown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,725 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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 burning92
Arson/incendiarism54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Recreation and ceremony15
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINCAID
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUCKLEBERRY FORK
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 May 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2017Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOGSKIN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fogertown in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2008Thunderstorm WindFogertown$35,000A barn and many trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFogertown-Clay county dispatch reported a tree blown down onto KY-472, about 2.5 miles from US-421, near the community of Burning Springs.
June 2021Flash FloodFogertown-The Clay County dispatch reported a brief road closure, between 5 and 6pm, on KY-472 along Bray Creek due to water flowing over the road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindFogertown-Several trees down.
July 2003HailFogertown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Benge1.3 miles13
Larue1.7 miles13
Murry (historical)1.8 miles13
Grace2.4 miles13
Portersburg3.6 miles13
Sidell4.4 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)4.6 miles13
Burning Springs4.7 miles13

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 Q122553511The 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 512212. 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.