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Jolly, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Providence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42409. It stands on Farmers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nebo quadrangle. It stands 420 feet above sea level.

Jolly within Webster 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

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Jolly between 1997 and 2015, burning about 435 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryJUNKYARD F
9 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2002Equipment and vehicle use25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jolly in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
July 2024Flash FloodJolly-Water flowed over US-41 about 1.1 miles north of Providence. Overnight rainfall totals had radar estimated and measurements of 3 to 5 inches in portions of southern Webster County north of Providence.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Lisman1.6 miles13
Stanhope2.6 miles13
Dixon3.4 miles13
Vanderburg3.4 miles13
Free Union4.6 miles13
Little Zion5.2 miles13
Providence5.9 miles12
Gatesville6.1 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q6270067The 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 508352. 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.