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Gradyville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gradyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It lies near Mount Matney. The Survey maps it on the Gradyville quadrangle. It stands 699 feet above sea level.

Gradyville 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

28 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Gradyville between 1998 and 2017, burning about 310 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2016Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 61N FIRE
8 March 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gradyville in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindGradyville$50,000The county Emergency Manager reported a communications tower blown down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGradyville$20,000A public report was received of a tree down on a trailer due to severe thunderstorm winds.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindGradyville-A tree was blown down, blocking the westbound lanes of the Cumberland Parkway.
July 2020Flash FloodGradyville-Parts of Old Gradyville Road were underwater.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindGradyville-Multiple trees were reported down on Old Gradyville Road.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindGradyville-Local law enforcement reported trees down and a few power lines down across Adair County.
June 2015HailGradyville-A report of nickel size hail was received by the public.
July 2018HailGradyville-no account filed
May 2014HailGradyville-no account filed
May 1998Flash FloodGradyville-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
Taters Chapel (historical)2.5 miles9
Bliss2.9 miles9
Weed3.1 miles9
Flatwood3.4 miles9
Sparksville3.9 miles9
Milltown4.1 miles9
Portland4.1 miles9
Hunter (historical)4.4 miles9

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 GradyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5592158The 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 493073. 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.