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Grace, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Tanyard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Grace within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Grace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,306 acres in total. None started naturally. 72 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 burning126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism72
Recreation and ceremony18
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINCAID
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWN BRANCH
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grace in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 hail. 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
September 2024HailGrace-A social media picture showed estimated 1.5 inch diameter hail near Grace.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Sidell2.2 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)2.3 miles13
Murry (historical)2.4 miles13
Gray Fork (historical)2.4 miles13
Fogertown2.4 miles13
Urban2.9 miles13
Larue3.2 miles13
Portersburg3.7 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 GraceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690470The 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 512358. 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.