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Graham, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42344. The Survey maps it on the Millport quadrangle. It stands 528 feet above sea level.

Graham within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

65 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Graham between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,270 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Debris and open burning13
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGAS WELL
4 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism165 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestry503 COMPLEX

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graham in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
February 1997Thunderstorm WindGraham$5,000no account filed
June 2006HailGraham-Reports of half-dollar size hail 2 to 4.5 miles southwest of Bancroft were obtained by NSSL during the Severe Hail Verification Experiment (SHAVE). Nickel size hail fell in Graham.
May 2004Tornado (F2)Graham-The tornado crossed over from Hopkins County in a densely forested area, and lifted within a couple minutes after entering Muhlenberg County. Tree damage was the only known damage during the short time this tornado was in Muhlenberg County.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindGraham-Trees were down across Kentucky 175 near Bremen, Kentucky 601 near Graham, and Kentucky 70 West near Central City.
May 2023HailGraham-no account filed
June 2004HailGraham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Gordon (historical)2.0 miles13
New Cypress2.1 miles16
East Union (historical)2.5 miles14
Depoy3.2 miles16
McNary3.6 miles13
Earles3.7 miles14
Vernal Grove (historical)3.7 miles13
Sandy3.9 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.

Wikipedia article on GrahamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5592602The 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 493076. 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.