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Ford, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Ford-Boonesborough census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ford quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Ford within Clark County

On record in Ford

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Ford between 1999 and 2017, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 June 2000Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 November 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 November 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMT. MORIAH FIRE
10 November 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEKU-FM
31 October 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ford: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boonesboro QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Storms near this place

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ford in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2020Flash FloodFord-Four Mile Road was closed due to high water.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindFord-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Charleston (historical)2.0 miles16
Jackson Ferry (historical)2.1 miles17
Lisletown2.7 miles15
Elkin2.9 miles17
Providence (historical)3.2 miles17
Hootentown3.5 miles15
Olivers (historical)3.7 miles17
Flanagan4.5 miles17

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 FordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690414The 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 492301. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.