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Kehoe, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It lies in ZIP code area 41141. It stands on Three Prong Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tygarts Valley quadrangle.

Kehoe within Greenup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Kehoe between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,499 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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
Debris and open burning36
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2015Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOLE SHEA
2 May 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greenup County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Kehoe: 9 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carter QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bradley MinesClayPast Producer
Dupuy Clay Strip MineClayPast Producer
Fultz MineClayPast Producer
Gesling Open Pit MineClayPast Producer
Jordan Clay Strip MineClayPast Producer
Messer MineClayProducer
Ramey Zorne Branch MineClayPast Producer
Strickland Tract MineClayPast Producer
Wesley Corn MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Greenup County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kehoe in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 4 flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
March 2015FloodKehoe$100,000Small streams overflowed and blocked roads by the afternoon of the 4th. For example, Three Prong Branch flooded State Route 784. Route 2 also flooded near Load. The Ohio River kept minor flooding lingering into the 7th. The Greenup Lock and Dam crested just over its 54 foot flood stage on the 7th.
April 2015FloodKehoe$25,000Streams mostly in the southern and eastern portion of the county flooded roads. The Little Sandy remained above its banks into the 15th.
May 1998Tornado (F0)Kehoe$15,000The tornado skipped along the ground. Peak wind gusts were estimated around 70 mph. The path was through sparsely populated wooded countryside. A survey team saw damage to telephone and electrical lines. Numerous trees were fallen, but no structures were affected.
May 1998HailKehoe$10,000Vehicular windshields were cracked.
February 2019FloodKehoe$2,000Several roads were closed due to flooding. This included the intersection of State Routes 7 and 784 due to water spilling out of Tygarts Creek. Near Greenup, 2nd Street and the intersection of State Route 1 and Tanyard Hollow Road were closed due to flooding along Town Branch. The 3800 block of State Route 207 was also closed as the Little Sandy River overflowed.
April 2024FloodKehoe-Big Lost Creek Road was closed due to flooding between mile markers 8 and 10.

Every storm recorded in Greenup 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
Tygarts Valley1.5 miles8
Brushart4.0 miles11
Warnock4.3 miles14
Samaria6.5 miles14
York6.9 miles11
Load7.0 miles13
Truitt7.8 miles11
Oldtown8.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508373. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.