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Foxport, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Flemingsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41093. It lies near Sugar Loaf Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Burtonville quadrangle.

Foxport within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Foxport between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning11
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
24 June 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 1992Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBOAT GUNNEL
6 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2016Recreation and ceremony40 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEECHY CREEK
15 April 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 344
1 April 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBEECHY CREEK ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Foxport in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindFoxport-Multiple trees were blown down on Prater Road near the Mount Carmel community.
July 2010Flash FloodFoxport-Water was coming into homes in Foxport and over area roadways. Some residents were forced to evacuate their homes.
May 2010Flash FloodFoxport-Water was reported over Hwy 344 in front of the Baptist Church in Foxport.
June 2008Flash FloodFoxport-Six inches of water was flowing over Beechy Creek Road.
June 2008HailFoxport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Pleasureville0.6 miles8
Mount Carmel2.4 miles8
Pea Ridge (historical)2.7 miles8
Beechburg3.2 miles8
Dalesburg4.6 miles8
Wallingford4.9 miles8
Poplar Grove4.9 miles12
Carpentersville (historical)5.0 miles8

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 Q122598643The 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 492418. 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.