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Hargett, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It lies near Hillsboro Heights. The Survey maps it on the Palmer quadrangle.

Hargett within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

81 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Hargett between 1996 and 2020, burning about 724 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestCHESTNUT STAND
24 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 1999Natural70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 May 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill 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 Hargett: 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
Possum Run Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

11 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hargett in 11 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHargett$6,000A tree was reported to have been blown down onto a home in the Sandhill area.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindHargett$2,000Trees and power lines were downed near the community of Hargett.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHargett$2,000Estill county dispatch reported a tree blown down in the 7700 block of Winchester Road, north of Irvine. This impacted an electric line and caused a small fire.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindHargett$1,000A tree was blown down and across Old Fox Rd north of Irvine.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHargett-Dispatch reported trees blown down from near Sam to northeast of Irvine.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHargett-A tree was blown down and across Hwy 82.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindHargett-Trees were blown down and across Hwy 82 in Hargett.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindHargett-Trees were reported down at the intersection of Spout Spring and Twin Creek Road.
September 2006Flash FloodHargett-Six inches of water over Hargett Parving Road, road closed.
September 2006Flash FloodHargett-One foot of water over Ironworks Road off Highway 82.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindHargett-One tree down.

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Sams (historical)1.0 miles15
Calloway Creek (historical)1.4 miles12
Kimbrell1.8 miles12
Bogie (historical)2.2 miles15
Iron Mound2.9 miles15
Cressy3.3 miles15
Fox3.4 miles15
Old Witt School Neighborhood (historical)3.5 miles12

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 Q122569990The 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 508187. 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.