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Kidds Crossing, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Coopersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It stands on Kidds Branch. The Survey maps it on the Coopersville quadrangle.

Kidds Crossing within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

61 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Kidds Crossing between 1995 and 2019, burning about 5,331 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism30
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony3
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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 1999Natural75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2001Debris and open burning341 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2009Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestFORTY COFFEY
4 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 1996Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest4-H

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Kidds Crossing: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, 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
Whitley Clay BedClayProspect
Yamacraw Sandstone RoadcutSilicaProspect

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kidds Crossing in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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 2003HailKidds Crossing-Hail with the diameter of 0.88 inches occurred along Kentucky Highway 92.

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Coopersville3.1 miles11
Rockybranch3.2 miles9
Ritner3.6 miles11
Pueblo4.0 miles11
Denney4.1 miles11
Griffin4.4 miles9
Barrier4.7 miles14
Gregory5.2 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 Kidds CrossingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85774302The 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 508388. 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.