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Glen Dean, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Glen Dean-Vanzant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. It stands on Daniels Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glen Dean quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Glen Dean within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Glen Dean between 2003 and 2014, burning about 112 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTICK RIDGE
19 August 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRAFFO VILLA
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined59 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glen Dean 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
June 2008Thunderstorm WindGlen Dean-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Dempster2.2 miles13
Rockvale2.4 miles13
Axtel3.5 miles13
Vanzant3.8 miles13
McQuady4.0 miles13
Falls of Rough4.4 miles11
Hinton Hills4.7 miles12
Tar Fork5.6 miles13

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 Glen DeanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5567688The 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 492886. 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.