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Glens Fork, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Glens Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. The Survey maps it on the Columbia quadrangle. It stands 810 feet above sea level.

Glens Fork 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Glens Fork between 1998 and 2014, burning about 268 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
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 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2002Debris and open burning80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 1999Smoking40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair 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 Glens Fork: 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
Williams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glens Fork in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 2015Tornado (EF1)Glens Fork$150,000An NWS Storm Survey found that the tornado first touched down 6 miles southeast of Columbia along Dale Morrison Road. Numerous trees were uprooted, a 145-foot barn was destroyed, and the top sheared off an adjacent silo. The tornado then moved east into a wooded area, snapping and uprooting trees. It damaged three more barns and uprooted more trees along Montpelier Rd. A home near the intersection of Montpelier Rd and Old Montpelier Rd sustained minor siding damage.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork$1,000Trees were downed and an outbuilding was blown over.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork-A tree was blown down by strong thunderstorm winds near the intersection of Kentucky Route 55 and Glens Fork Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork-A tree fell down and blocked South 55.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork-There were trees blown into the road and power lines down.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork-Large limbs were down across State Road 768 and were blocking traffic.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork-no account filed
July 2004HailGlens Fork-no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindGlens Fork-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
Gum Grove1.4 miles9
Joppa2.6 miles10
Fairplay2.8 miles9
Crocus3.1 miles9
Walnut Grove (historical)3.3 miles10
Montpelier3.5 miles10
Gadberry (historical)3.7 miles9
Inroad4.3 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 Glens ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5569320The 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 492906. 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.