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Goffs Corner, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It lies near Crow Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Goffs Corner within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

30 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Goffs Corner between 1999 and 2019, burning about 263 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 September 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 August 2002Debris and open burning21 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOPPERAS C
13 June 2000Debris and open burning95 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1999Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRED BIRD LANE
27 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Goffs Corner: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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
Zag MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goffs Corner in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 2 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindGoffs Corner-Trees were down along Mountain Parkway on the Clark County side.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGoffs Corner-A trained spotter reported that KY 15 near the Clark and Powell County line was closed due to several fallen trees and power lines. The road was closed for several hours as a result.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
New Providence (historical)1.6 miles12
Rabbit Town1.6 miles15
Kiddville2.3 miles12
Rightangle2.6 miles15
Snowden (historical)3.1 miles15
Pine Ridge (historical)4.0 miles15
Trapp4.0 miles15
Pilot View4.1 miles15

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 Goffs CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690454The 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 508104. 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.