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Frogue, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kettle-Peytonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Frogue quadrangle.

Frogue within Cumberland County

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

44 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Frogue between 1998 and 2020, burning about 493 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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
6 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 April 2007Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROBERT RIDGE
25 April 2009Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMODOC
15 April 2010Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Frogue: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc. 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
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrenceSphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frogue in 2 storm reports in 2011: 1 lightning, 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
May 2011LightningFrogue$15,000A lightning strike caused a barn to catch fire and burn down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindFrogue-Trees were blown down near Dale Hollow lake.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Hegira3.0 miles15
Kettle4.2 miles15
Modoc4.8 miles15
Green Grove4.9 miles15
Littrell5.4 miles14
Long Ridge5.4 miles15
Peytonsburg5.5 miles14
Poplar Grove (historical)5.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122557592The 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 508044. 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.