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Knifley, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Casey Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42753. It stands on Crooked Creek. The Survey maps it on the Knifley quadrangle. It stands 718 feet above sea level.

Knifley within Adair County

On record in Knifley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Knifley between 1998 and 2017, burning about 274 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/undetermined12
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUNTING HILLS
2 April 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRAY WILLIAMS RD. FIRE
8 March 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Knifley: 1 prospect. 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
Neatsville ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Knifley in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 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
January 2022Flash FloodKnifley-Flash flooding occurred in Knifely. Damage amount unknown.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindKnifley-Adair County law enforcement officials reported trees down in the area.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindKnifley-Local law enforcement reported several trees down in the area.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindKnifley-Several trees were blown down in the Knifely area.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindKnifley-An emergency manager reported a house with a wall blown down and a roof partially blown off. Also, numerous trees and power lines were down in the Casey Creek Rd. area.
June 1998Flash FloodKnifley-State police reported numerous roads closed and some homes surrounded by water.
March 2011HailKnifley-no account filed
June 2009HailKnifley-no account filed
June 2004HailKnifley-no account filed
October 2001Thunderstorm WindKnifley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Dunbar Hill2.1 miles10
Casey Creek2.6 miles9
Neatsville4.6 miles10
Wethington (historical)4.8 miles10
Feathersburg4.9 miles9
Holmes4.9 miles12
Barnett Springs5.2 miles9
Eunice5.4 miles9

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 KnifleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6422158The 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 508402. 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.