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Garlin, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It lies near Burton Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Garlin within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Garlin between 1999 and 2016, burning about 109 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
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism2
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
26 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBY-PASS
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2016Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE OAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Garlin: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Butler QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Patton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garlin in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 7 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGarlin-A 61 mph wind gust was measured at the Adair County KY Mesonet site.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindGarlin-There were trees down at Bull Run and Hutchinson Road, Bowen and Greenburg, on the 200 block of Chickadee Lane, and on Knifley Road.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindGarlin-The Adair county mesonet measured a gust of 62 mph.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindGarlin-A 58 mph gust was measured at the Adair county mesonet.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGarlin-Trees were down on Bull Run Road just outside of Columbia.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGarlin-Some trees reported down near Columbia.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindGarlin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Green Hills1.9 miles9
Concord (historical)2.0 miles10
Butler Branch (historical)2.4 miles9
Ozark2.6 miles10
Craycraft3.0 miles10
Columbia3.0 miles9
Oak Grove (historical)3.0 miles10
Christine3.1 miles10

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 GarlinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5523475The 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 492704. 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.