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Grahn, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grahn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41164. It stands on Cory Branch. The Survey maps it on the Grahn quadrangle. It stands 692 feet above sea level.

Grahn within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

148 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Grahn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,498 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined48
Recreation and ceremony24
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
4 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFORT FALLS
9 May 2014Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 3298
7 May 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2015Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySMITH BRANCH RD
5 May 2015Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEHART ROAD
2 May 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Grahn: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Olive Hill Fire Clay DistrictFire Clay (Refractory)Unknown
Olive Hill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
V QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grahn in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGrahn$20,000Trees were blown down onto power lines.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGrahn$2,000Large branches were blown down along Aden Road.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGrahn$1,500Downed trees and power lines along Church River Road in Grahn resulted in local power outages.

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Aden1.5 miles9
Cory2.0 miles9
Mountain Top2.7 miles9
Counts Crossroads3.3 miles9
Fultz3.3 miles9
Gregoryville4.1 miles9
Ross (historical)4.4 miles9
Clifty (historical)4.8 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 GrahnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690472The 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 493087. 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.