BlockBefore

Frew, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Cutshin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41776. It stands on Polecat Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hazard South quadrangle. It stands 1,056 feet above sea level.

Frew within Leslie County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

273 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Frew between 1993 and 2020, burning about 10,995 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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 burning108
Missing data/not specified/undetermined78
Arson/incendiarism57
Recreation and ceremony23
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning63 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOOLY FK
25 September 2007Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leslie County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frew: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Branch Gap ClayClayProspect
Buffalo Divide ShaleClayProspect

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frew in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindFrew-There were trees down on second fork.

Every storm recorded in Leslie 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
Hendrix (historical)1.0 miles14
Wooton3.0 miles14
Daley3.3 miles16
Smilax3.8 miles14
Toulouse4.3 miles14
Lower McIntosh (historical)4.9 miles14
Cinda5.8 miles14
Cutshin6.5 miles14

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 FrewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5503274The 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 512255. 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.