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Green, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41171. It stands on Newcombe Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bruin quadrangle. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Green within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

67 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Green between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,153 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony4
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
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 April 2000Arson/incendiarism870 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFRALET DRIVE
24 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOWARDS CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindGreen$4,000Trees were blown down on Hwy 7 and Route 504 near Green.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindGreen$3,000no account filed
May 1997HailGreen-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Newfoundland1.4 miles9
Ibex2.5 miles9
Burke3.0 miles9
Dewdrop3.4 miles8
Stark3.9 miles8
Newcombe4.0 miles9
Bell City4.4 miles10
Bruin4.4 miles9

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 GreenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5602172The 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 508125. 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.