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Huff, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sunfish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42210. It lies near West Point. The Survey maps it on the Brownsville quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Huff within Edmonson 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Huff between 1998 and 2018, burning about 925 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined19
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
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
30 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use400 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLEEPY HOLLOW
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

15 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huff in 15 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 hail, 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
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHuff$20,000A concrete block garage was destroyed and an RV was blown over 2.5 miles southwest of Sunfish.
April 2025Flash FloodHuff-State Road 70 was closed at Bear Creek due to water over the road.
February 2019Flash FloodHuff-A bridge on Blackgold-Grassland Road had to be closed due to high water.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindHuff-The county Emergency Manager reported 15 to 20 trees down across the county due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindHuff-The public reported a measured wind gust of 52 kts from a personal weather station in Huff.
April 2015Tornado (EF2)Huff-A narrow tornado developed quickly just west of 3667 Grassland Black Gold Rd (Highway 1365) and snapped a few softwood and few wood large limbs. It then grew in width and intensity as it crossed Highway 1365 and uprooted, snapped and twisted over 200 trees in a heavily forested area around a deep karst ravine. A drone was used to pinpoint the exact storm end point which was about 100 yards east of Highway 1365 near a farmer's field.
May 2015HailHuff-A trained spotter reported hail up to 3/4 inch diameter.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHuff-A CoCoRaHS observer reported a measured wind gust of 64 mph and pea sized hail.
June 2011FloodHuff-Over four and one half inches of rain fell within several hours, including two inches over the hour ending at 1 am CST.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHuff-A storm chaser reported large tree limbs down. Wind gusts were estimated to be around 60 mph.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHuff-A storm chaser reported large tree limbs down. Wind gusts were estimated to be 60 mph.
April 2010Thunderstorm WindHuff-The public reported a measured wind gust of 59 knots.
October 2010Thunderstorm WindHuff-A large barn roof was damaged.
December 2007FloodHuff-Parts of Kentucky Route 655 were closed due to high water.
May 2025HailHuff-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Black Gold2.1 miles13
Segal3.1 miles14
Windyville3.2 miles13
Sunfish3.3 miles13
Roundhill3.4 miles14
Big Reedy3.9 miles13
Lindseyville4.0 miles13
Asphalt4.1 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 HuffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5929448The 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 508290. 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.