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Fonde, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Pruden-Fonde census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40940. It stands on Sowder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eagan quadrangle. It stands 1,362 feet above sea level.

Fonde within Bell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Fonde between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,952 acres in total. None started naturally. 72 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
Arson/incendiarism72
Debris and open burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
8 September 2007Debris and open burning77 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
3 June 2019Arson/incendiarism17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLD MILL ROAD FIRE
23 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
22 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
21 May 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreTennessee Division of ForestryHIGHCLIFT 2
6 April 1999Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bell County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fonde in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail. 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
May 1998Tornado (F1)Fonde$200,000no account filed
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFonde$3,000A 2-foot diameter tree was blown onto power lines, and shingles were blown off of a residence in the community of Fonde.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindFonde$2,000Trees were uprooted and power lines were downed in the Fonde community.
April 2011Funnel CloudFonde-There was a funnel cloud spotted near Fonde.
March 2012HailFonde-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bell 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
Pruden0.8 miles17
Garmeada2.8 miles18
Capito2.8 miles18
Hamblim4.2 miles16
Frakes4.3 miles16
Henderson Grove4.6 miles16
Yellow Creek5.1 miles18
Chenoa5.2 miles18

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 FondeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5464996The 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 492295. 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.