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Guerrant, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Oakdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It stands on Puncheon Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.

Guerrant within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

191 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Guerrant between 1995 and 2020, burning about 9,716 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning95
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
8 September 2007Recreation and ceremony33 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryGRAY HAWK
3 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMICK COMBS HILL
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWALKLOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Guerrant in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 3 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindGuerrant$2,000Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts at the intersection of 2469 and Highland Road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindGuerrant$2,000A large tree was knocked over onto a church on Highway 30 West near Guerrant.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindGuerrant-Trees and large limbs were blown down along Kentucky Highways 2469 and 541.
March 2012HailGuerrant-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Copebranch1.7 miles12
Shoulderblade1.7 miles13
Turkey2.0 miles12
Jetts Creek2.4 miles12
Chenowee2.7 miles14
Oakdale3.6 miles12
Houston4.3 miles12
Canoe4.7 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122559661The 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 508144. 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.