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Garvin Ridge, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Olive Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41164. It stands on Griffy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Olive Hill quadrangle.

Garvin Ridge within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

174 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Garvin Ridge between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,584 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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 burning61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism32
Recreation and ceremony24
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryB AND B LANE
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHERYL ROGERS HOLLOW
10 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGHWAY 59
26 June 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryDAVIS LANE
5 May 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEHART ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Garvin Ridge: 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Silica, 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
Olive Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
V QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Chespeake Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Lawton Sandstone PitSilicaProspect
Railroad Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer
Dry Branch Strip MineClayPast Producer
Durham Fork ShaleClayProspect
Ford Burchett Clay MineClayPast Producer
Ford Burchett Clay MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garvin Ridge in 1 storm report in 2010: 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGarvin Ridge$2,000Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Clark Hill1.0 miles9
Olive Hill1.9 miles9
Globe2.1 miles9
Limestone2.3 miles9
Lawton2.4 miles9
Cold Springs (historical)2.4 miles9
Silica (historical)2.5 miles9
Reeder (historical)2.5 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q122550000The 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 508072. 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.