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Gardner, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ashers Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Lick Fork. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle.

Gardner within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Gardner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,089 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 56 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
Arson/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning500 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOTATO KNOB
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 July 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRED BIRD M
24 June 2014Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOW CK
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism131 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gardner in 1 storm report in 2008: 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
March 2008Thunderstorm WindGardner$1,000One tree was blown down on KY Highway 66.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Queendale3.0 miles13
Ashers Fork4.1 miles13
Spring Creek6.5 miles13
Brightshade7.4 miles13
Creekville7.6 miles13
Plank9.4 miles13
Marcum9.9 miles13
Ogle10.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512277. 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.