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Gordon Ford, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Jones Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lenox quadrangle.

Gordon Ford within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

98 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Gordon Ford between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,053 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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 burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism25
Recreation and ceremony8
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
30 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2013Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 460-1081 INTERSECTION
22 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordon Ford in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 3 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindGordon Ford-Dispatch relayed reports of several trees and large limbs blown down from southeast of West Liberty to Crockett.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGordon Ford-A tree fell onto a house.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGordon Ford-A tree fell onto a house.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Jones Creek (historical)1.1 miles14
Malone1.3 miles14
Cottle1.9 miles14
White Oak2.6 miles12
Index2.7 miles14
West Liberty2.9 miles14
Stacy Fork3.1 miles14
Greear3.2 miles14

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 Q122557883The 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 508114. 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.