BlockKino, Kentucky
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Temple Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42141. The Survey maps it on the Temple Hill quadrangle. It stands 827 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Temple Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Temple Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Tompkinsville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
13 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kino between 1999 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 22 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 1999 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 1 April 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2000 | Debris and open burning | 38 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 March 2001 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | YOUNG ROAD |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kino in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kino | $10,000 | Local media reported that a trailer was blown over on Harp Road east of Glasgow. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eighty Eight | 2.1 miles | 10 | |
| Slick Rock | 4.2 miles | 13 | |
| Temple Hill | 5.6 miles | 10 | |
| Nobob | 5.7 miles | 8 | |
| Lecta | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bristletown | 7.6 miles | 10 | |
| Glasgow | 7.9 miles | 10 | |
| Coral Hill | 8.3 miles | 13 |
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 Kino | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6414149 | The 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 508392. 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.