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Grider, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Burkesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Waterview quadrangle. It stands 617 feet above sea level.

Grider within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

39 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Grider between 1998 and 2020, burning about 786 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
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
26 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2001Arson/incendiarism40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2001Smoking3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2000Arson/incendiarism156 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning28 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOOSE CREE
5 March 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2009Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Grider: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale. 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
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grider in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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 2025Thunderstorm WindGrider-A 59 mph wind gust was measured at the Cumberland County Kentucky mesonet station.
October 2014Tornado (EF1)Grider-The tornado touched down briefly on a ridge top just south of the end of Dug Road, snapping and uprooting approximately 200 trees in a 100 yard path about 2 tenths of a mile in length. This same storm produced 2 inch hail to the north of this touchdown and later dropped a tornado in Clinton County. No other damage was observed between this location and the Clinton County touchdown 10.75 miles east.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindGrider-The Kentucky mesonet site in Cumberland county measured a peak wind gust of 59 mph.
July 2009Heavy RainGrider-The Kentucky Mesonet station three miles west of Burkesville measured 1.04 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindGrider-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Waterview1.9 miles8
Leslie2.2 miles8
Lewis Creek (historical)3.0 miles10
Burkesville3.1 miles10
Ellington3.2 miles8
Dougan Town3.3 miles10
Little Renox (historical)3.5 miles8
Sugar Grove (historical)3.9 miles8

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 GriderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5608623The 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 493373. 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.