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Fryer, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Fredonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42445. It stands on Elk Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dalton quadrangle. It stands 387 feet above sea level.

Fryer within Caldwell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Fryer between 1998 and 2016, burning about 237 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
25 August 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMBELL
18 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRESWELL H
6 April 1998Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCALSSEN
1 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caldwell 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 Fryer: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten. 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
Hobby Tungsten DepositTungstenProspect

Every working recorded in Caldwell County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fryer in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
April 2011Flash FloodFryer-A levee breach on Clear Creek at the Hopkins/Caldwell County line caused flash flooding. Highway 293 was closed north of Fryer.

Every storm recorded in Caldwell 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
Harper Ford2.1 miles13
Quinn2.3 miles13
Tom Gray Ford3.1 miles13
Needmore3.1 miles15
Rufus3.9 miles15
Smith Ford4.3 miles13
Utley Ford4.6 miles13
Creswell4.9 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 FryerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q15221154The 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 508049. 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.