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Garrett, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41630. It stands on Esteps Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Garrett within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

303 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 303 fires within 5 miles of Garrett between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,780 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning146
Missing data/not specified/undetermined58
Arson/incendiarism56
Recreation and ceremony42
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrett in 15 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 3 hail, 2 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 2008Thunderstorm WindGarrett$20,000Several trees were blown down, with a few of the trees falling onto cars.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGarrett$15,000Multiple trees were blown down.
August 2013Flash FloodGarrett$10,000A number of homes in the Rock Fork community were damaged by flood water.
August 2013Flash FloodGarrett$5,000Water rushing out of the creeks along Hwy 80 caused several houses and trailers in the area to become surrounded by water.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGarrett$5,000Trees were blown down onto Route 777 by thunderstorm wind gusts.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindGarrett$3,000Several wrist size branches torn off trees.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindGarrett$1,000A tree was downed across Stonecoal Road (KY-777). Power outages were reported in the area. The exact location of the downed trees and powerlines along the road was not reported.
March 2015FloodGarrett$1,000Kentucky 777 at mile marker 0.3 was impassable due to flooding.
April 2025HailGarrett-A picture showed at least quarter sized hail in the Garret community of Floyd County.
May 2025Flash FloodWest Garrett-The Floyd County Sherriff reported flash flooding over Salt Lick Road (KY-2029) around the 700 block, causing the road to be impassable.
March 2021FloodGarrett-Evacuations and high-water rescues are ongoing in the community of Garrett.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGarrett-Trees were blown down on Hwy 777.
May 2009Flash FloodWest Garrett-Streams were flowing over roads and bridges.
May 2016HailGarrett-no account filed
June 2006HailGarrett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
West Garrett0.4 miles17
Welco Station0.5 miles17
Porter Junction0.5 miles17
Lackey0.8 miles17
Hueysville (historical)1.2 miles17
Bosco1.4 miles17
Estill1.7 miles17
Northern2.1 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 GarrettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5523858The 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 492717. 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.