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Fredville, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Royalton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Whitley Branch. The Survey maps it on the David quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Fredville within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

227 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Fredville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,081 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Arson/incendiarism40
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGUNLOCK
23 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 June 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fredville in 1 storm report in 2006: 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
June 2006HailFredville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Arthurmabel1.2 miles17
Gapville1.7 miles16
Waldo2.1 miles17
Galdia2.3 miles16
Duco3.3 miles14
Gypsy3.9 miles16
Swampton4.4 miles14
Gunlock4.5 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 FredvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5499583The 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 508035. 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.