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Haddix, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Haddix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41339. It stands on Troublesome Creek. The Survey maps it on the Haddix quadrangle. It stands 781 feet above sea level.

Haddix within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

248 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Haddix between 1997 and 2020, burning about 18,978 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism46
Recreation and ceremony18
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 1998Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 June 2012Debris and open burning48 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIG BRANCH
29 June 2012Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTRAY BRAN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt 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 Haddix: 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
Hillside RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haddix in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindHaddix$25,000The porches were blown off of 2 mobile homes with a tree down on one of them. Numerous trees were down in and around Haddix.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHaddix$3,000Trees were blown down near Haddix.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindHaddix$3,000The front porch roof was blown off a house. The porch was knocked off its foundation. The home next door had its porch partially destroyed by a fallen cedar tree.
March 2002Tornado (F0)Haddix$1,000An F0 tornado briefly touched down and ripped off a portion of tin roofing of a house.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindHaddix-Highway 1110 was blocked by multiple trees and large limbs.
June 2008HailHaddix-A large quantity of one half to three quarter inch diameter hail covered the ground.
July 2006HailHaddix-no account filed
July 2005HailHaddix-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
Lost Creek1.3 miles13
Kragon1.4 miles14
Copland2.5 miles13
Flintville2.5 miles13
Quicksand2.9 miles14
Clayhole3.0 miles13
Little3.4 miles13
Watts3.5 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.

Wikipedia article on HaddixAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5637678The 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 493525. 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.