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Gabe, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Summersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42743. It sits by Buzzards Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Summersville quadrangle.

Gabe within Green County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

23 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Gabe between 2000 and 2020, burning about 203 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
Recreation and ceremony7
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
8 March 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning47 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRAMBLE HU
6 March 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySAM GENTRY
31 March 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2008Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gabe in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGabe$50,000A Kentucky state official reported that multiple trees and power lines were down with structural damage reported as well.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindGabe$15,000The roof was torn off a mobile home. Some outbuildings and their contents were damaged. A few trees were downed.
May 2025HailGabe-Half dollar sized hail was reported just west of Greensburg.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGabe-Several trees were downed by strong winds in Green County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGabe-A tree was down on a mobile home.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGabe-A spotter reported several trees down 5 miles west of Summersville near the intersection of Lower Brush Cane Road and State Highway 323.
October 2014HailGabe-no account filed
July 2003HailGabe-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Summersville2.0 miles10
Bloyds Crossing3.6 miles10
Webbs3.7 miles10
Allendale4.4 miles10
Lobb4.6 miles8
Greensburg5.1 miles9
Coakley5.1 miles9
Eve5.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508056. 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.