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Hunt, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Winchester quadrangle.

Hunt within Clark County

On record in Hunt

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

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Hunt between 1999 and 2010, burning about 9 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
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 December 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 November 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 November 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEDDLES MILL
31 October 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hunt in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
October 2021Flash FloodHunt-A layer of asphalt was washed away on Creekside Lane. Four Mile Road was closed due to flood damage.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Pinchem1.1 miles17
Haggard (historical)1.2 miles17
Allensville (historical)2.1 miles17
Olivers (historical)2.3 miles17
Bloomingdale2.4 miles17
Flanagan3.1 miles17
Elkin3.4 miles17
Cotton Branch (historical)3.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508297. 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.