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Gray Hawk, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the McKee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Rolling Fork. The Survey maps it on the McKee quadrangle. It stands 1,273 feet above sea level.

Gray Hawk within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Gray Hawk between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,772 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Recreation and ceremony25
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest448
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest290
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gray Hawk in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 1997HailGray Hawk$30,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk$5,000Trees were blown down on Highway 290.
July 2009HailGray Hawk$5,000Quarter size hail fell and trees were blown down on Highway 587. Some hail was still laying around in piles around dawn.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk$5,000Trees down at Route 421 and Soaptown Road blocking lanes.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk$5,000Small buildings blown over. Windows blown out.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk$3,000no account filed
July 2019Flash FloodGray Hawk$1,500Local Emergency Management reported water flowing across Lower Atkinstown Road near U.S. Highway 421 southeast of McKee. This resulted in pavement being stripped from the road.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk-The Jackson County dispatch reported a tree blown down across McCammon Ridge Road near the intersection with Kim Gay Lane.
May 2022HailGray Hawk-An individual near Gray Hawk reported quarter-sized (1.00 inch) hail.
May 2020FloodGray Hawk-A citizen observed low lying flooding near Gray Hawk.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk-A large tree was uprooted, causing it to fall onto a nearby fence.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk-A tree was blown down on Lower Adkins Town Road in Gray Hawk.
August 2013Heavy RainGray Hawk-A hyrdometeorological automated data system recorded a 24 hour rainfall total of 2.58 inches at Gray Hawk.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk-Trees were blown down on Kelly Rd.
July 2007HailGray Hawk-Hail nickel size and slightly larger fell for 20 minutes.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGray Hawk-A few trees down at the junction of Oak Grove Church Road and Highway 421.
May 2003Flash FloodGray Hawk-Water was over numerous roads between Gray Hawk and the Laurel County line, including Kentucky Highway 30 West, near Peoples. There was also much debris on Silver Lake Road after flood water receded.
April 2006HailGray Hawk-no account filed
November 2002HailGray Hawk-no account filed
June 2001HailGray Hawk-no account filed
January 1999HailGray Hawk-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Atkinstown1.4 miles13
Smith (historical)2.0 miles13
Huff (historical)2.1 miles13
Privett2.2 miles13
Oak Grove (historical)2.4 miles13
Bradshaw2.4 miles13
Blooming Grove (historical)2.7 miles13
Mildred2.9 miles13

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 Gray HawkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5598183The 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 512409. 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.