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Jeffrey, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Mount Hermon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42157. It stands on Miller Branch. The Survey maps it on the Freedom quadrangle.

Jeffrey within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Jeffrey between 1999 and 2014, burning about 78 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2008Recreation and ceremony14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 March 2009Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 February 2013Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOARDERS FIRE
18 February 2013Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOMER FIRE
1 February 2014Debris and open burning22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPROFITT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

5 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jeffrey in 5 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindJeffrey-Several trees were blown over by strong thunderstorm winds in western Monroe County.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindJeffrey-About one third of a barn roof was torn off by winds on Whitlow Road near Les Williams Road.
May 2021Flash FloodJeffrey-Photos on social media showed flooding over Bethlehem Church Road.
February 2009HailJeffrey-no account filed
January 2006HailJeffrey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Gum Tree2.2 miles11
Pikesville (historical)2.7 miles11
Flippin2.8 miles11
Lamb3.1 miles9
Mud Lick3.2 miles8
Emberton3.2 miles11
Mount Hermon4.0 miles8
Freetown5.4 miles11

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 JeffreyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q110536075The 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 508332. 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.