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Garner, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mousie census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41817. It stands on Watts Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hindman quadrangle. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.

Garner within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

313 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Garner between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,793 acres in total. None started naturally. 53 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 burning135
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism53
Recreation and ceremony25
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking3
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 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Smoking10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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 Garner: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Ogden Branch StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garner in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
March 2021Flash FloodGarner-Pictures shared on social media show flood waters surrounding houses in the community of Garner.

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Leburn1.7 miles16
Larkslane3.0 miles17
Pippa Passes3.2 miles17
Soft Shell3.2 miles17
Hindman3.3 miles16
Odgen Gap3.5 miles16
Brinkley3.6 miles16
Hollybush4.1 miles17

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 GarnerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5523611The 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 508068. 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.