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Kellacey, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grassy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Tarkiln Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ezel quadrangle. It stands 942 feet above sea level.

Kellacey within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

57 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Kellacey between 1995 and 2020, burning about 341 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking1
Natural1

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
4 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestDEVILS SPA
11 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITTS ACRES
3 July 2012Natural6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestYOCUM
5 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CREEK
15 May 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRYAN ROAD
9 April 2005Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestELM LOG
3 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kellacey: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Barnett ShaleClayProspect
Zag ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kellacey in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2009Thunderstorm WindKellacey$5,000Large limbs were blown down along Route 985.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindKellacey-Dispatch reported a tree blown down onto a power line near Arnett, northwest of West Liberty.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Twentysix2.0 miles14
Zag2.2 miles14
Ebon2.3 miles14
Perry Bend (historical)2.6 miles14
Dehart2.9 miles14
Fannin (historical)3.0 miles14
Yocum3.8 miles14
Bonny4.0 miles14

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 KellaceyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690749The 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 513110. 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.