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Grange City, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41049. It stands on Davis Branch. The Survey maps it on the Colfax quadrangle.

Grange City within Fleming County

On record in Grange City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

29 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Grange City between 1999 and 2018, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
3 April 2013Debris and open burning3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLFAX RD
12 April 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE SANDY RD.
10 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryADAMS RD FIRE
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryPEASTICKS
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2018Arson/incendiarism16 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRANGE CITY
28 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Grange City: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Clover Creek Iron TractIronProspect

Every working recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grange City in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 1 flash flood, 1 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 2022Thunderstorm WindGrange City-A tree was blown down and onto McRoberts Lane near Grange City.
June 2003Flash FloodGrange City-Kentucky Highway 111 was under water.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Stringtown0.8 miles10
Colfax2.8 miles10
Sunset3.1 miles10
Farmville (historical)3.3 miles8
Hillsboro3.4 miles10
Locust5.3 miles10
Plummers Mill6.4 miles8
Plummers Landing7.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512361. 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.