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Grove, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cumberland Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40701. It stands on Whippoorwill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Vox quadrangle.

Grove within Whitley 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 983 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1
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
6 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestCADILLIAC
5 September 2015Arson/incendiarism6.5 acresDaniel Boone National ForestAUGER SPRINGS
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWHIPPOORWILL
14 September 2005Arson/incendiarism108 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWHIPPOORWILL
27 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEGLEY
18 August 2008Natural160 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSPRUCE
18 August 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestAUGER
13 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBARK CAMP IV

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grove in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2014Thunderstorm WindGrove-A tree was blown down and was partially blocking Hwy 511.
April 2010HailGrove-Quarter size hail fell in Grove.

Every storm recorded in Whitley 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
Woodland Estates1.6 miles16
Chestnut Grove (historical)2.3 miles16
Youngs Creek4.7 miles16
Scuffletown5.0 miles16
Faber6.4 miles16
Walden6.7 miles16
Corbin6.8 miles17
Woodbine7.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512473. 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.