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Holbrook, Kentucky

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Williamstown-Dry Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41097. The Survey maps it on the Lawrenceville quadrangle.

Holbrook within Grant County

On record in Holbrook

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 6 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Starnes Bridge, Spanning Eagle Creek, Holbrook, Grant County, KY
Starnes Bridge, Spanning Eagle Creek, Holbrook, Grant County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Holbrook between 1998 and 2011, burning about 19 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 ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
7 March 2009Recreation and ceremony10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 February 2011Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOLDEN VALLEY
2 December 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grant County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Holbrook in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 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
April 2015FloodHolbrook$25,000A bridge was washed out on Lusby Mills Road.

Every storm recorded in Grant 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
Gold Valley (historical)2.7 miles9
Downingsville3.5 miles7
Lawrenceville3.7 miles6
Four Corners4.6 miles7
Stewartsville4.6 miles7
Jonesville4.7 miles8
Delia5.2 miles7
Heekin5.3 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508262. 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.