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Graysville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40146. It lies near Somerset Knob. The Survey maps it on the Garfield quadrangle.

Graysville within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Graysville between 1998 and 2018, burning about 167 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
19 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTERRETT RD. FIRE
9 April 2017Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBLUE FORK ROAD
7 April 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremony13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 60 FIRE
11 April 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2012Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1073

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graysville in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2016Tornado (EF1)Graysville$100,000A very narrow intense damage path of rotating winds 90 to 95 mph was embedded within a 3 mile wide area of straight line winds in eastern Breckinridge County. The tornado left a distinct path in the vegetation and destroyed a part of a large metal barn near the Rosetta General Store. It also caused the walls of 2 adjacent outbuildings and a garage to buckle out. Wind-driven hail occurring with the storm shredded the vinyl siding on the west side of a home.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindGraysville-Power lines were down on the 4500 block of State Road 86, just outside of Custer.
March 2024Thunderstorm WindGraysville-A tree fell across Rosetta Road near Stinnettsville.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Stinnettsville0.8 miles16
Rosetta2.1 miles16
Hensley2.4 miles16
Woodrow2.4 miles11
Custer3.3 miles11
Garfield3.3 miles16
Corners3.9 miles14
Locust Hill4.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508124. 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.