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Greenwood, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parkers Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42634. It lies near Miller Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Wiborg quadrangle.

Greenwood within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,031 acres in total. None started naturally. 72 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
Arson/incendiarism72
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism21 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTIRE
26 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCEMETERY
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestOLE HIGHWAY 27
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPOFF
23 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenance7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestMCCLAIN
18 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTUCKER TOWN
10 September 2016Arson/incendiarism15 acresDaniel Boone National ForestARCH
30 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSWAIN CIRCLE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenwood: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Parkers Lake ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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 2009Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$3,000Three structures were damaged by thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindGreenwood$1,000Trees down on power lines.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-A trained spotter reported several trees snapped and uprooted across McCreary County.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindGreenwood-Trees down.
April 2005HailGreenwood-no account filed
May 2002HailGreenwood-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Nevelsville4.1 miles12
Wiborg4.5 miles16
Bauer4.7 miles17
Funston5.0 miles17
Flat Rock5.4 miles16
Beulah Heights5.7 miles16
Honeybee6.9 miles16
Sawyer7.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512450. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.