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Habit, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Whitesville-Philpot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42366. The Survey maps it on the Philpot quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Habit within Daviess County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Habit between 2000 and 2010, burning about 34 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Debris and open burning1

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
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry20 BAIL
9 March 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 January 2009Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Daviess County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Habit in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
January 2012Thunderstorm WindHabit$20,000A mobile home received extensive damage.

Every storm recorded in Daviess 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
Philpot2.5 miles13
Masonville2.6 miles17
Grandview3.5 miles13
Oak Ridge3.7 miles17
Dermont3.9 miles17
Normandy Heights4.5 miles18
Hunters Ridge4.5 miles17
Locust Hills4.7 miles18

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 HabitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5636868The 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 493513. 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.