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Huffman, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leitchfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle.

Huffman within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

25 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Huffman between 1999 and 2018, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTAYLOR FORK
2 May 2018Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL HOLLOW
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryNOLIN ESTATES FIRE
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN CLIFF
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTIMBERLAND FIRE
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON SPRINGS
14 April 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huffman in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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 2025Flash FloodHuffman-The 900 block of Huffman Road was completely washed out and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
Johnson Crossroads1.1 miles12
Meredith1.3 miles12
Conoloway1.5 miles15
Peonia1.8 miles12
Anneta1.9 miles15
Iberia3.0 miles15
Snap3.5 miles12
Skaggstown3.5 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508291. 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.