Grannie, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Campton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It lies near Sandy Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Campton quadrangle.

Grannie within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1952 USGS Campton quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Campton quadrangle1:24000
1972 USGS Campton quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

128 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Grannie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 773 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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 burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Recreation and ceremony	26
Arson/incendiarism	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BUFFALO TRAIL
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MULLINS POINT
16 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GRIFFEN BRANCH
14 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 August 1999	Natural	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mullins Point (historical)	1.2 miles	12
High Falls	2.3 miles	12
Booth	2.6 miles	13
Vortex	2.9 miles	12
Mary	3.1 miles	12
Antioch (historical)	3.2 miles	12
Campton	3.2 miles	12
Rogers	4.3 miles	13

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.

Wikidata item Q122550548

The 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 512362. 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.