Grant, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Willard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41168. It stands on Mill Road Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rush quadrangle.

Grant within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1903 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1904 USGS Kenova quadrangle1:125000
1953 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Rush quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

152 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Grant between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,351 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	31
Recreation and ceremony	31
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
13 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 June 2012	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KATIE ROAD
21 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 May 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grant in 2 storm reports between 2021 and 2025: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2021	Flash Flood	Grant	$5,000	Route 60 became flooded between Grayson and Rush due to heavy rainfall. A water rescue was conducted along Wilson Creek after a vehicle became submerged by the quickly rising water.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Grant	$1,500	Nearly 150 homes in the area were without power due to tree and power line damage nearby.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Music	0.6 miles	15
Norton Branch	1.2 miles	15
Williams Creek	2.0 miles	15
Stinson	3.2 miles	15
Denton	4.2 miles	15
Straight Creek	4.5 miles	15
Mount Savage	5.2 miles	15
Beech Grove	5.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2092540. 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.