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Korea, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Frenchburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40387. It stands on Black Fork. The Survey maps it on the Ezel quadrangle. It stands 1,118 feet above sea level.

Korea within Menifee 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Korea between 1994 and 2020, burning about 280 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
15 May 2013Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRYAN ROAD
6 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWELLINGTON RD
3 April 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 April 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGLEN LAWSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Menifee County

Storms near this place

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Korea in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2026: 4 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
February 2012Thunderstorm WindKorea$3,000Trees were blown down and onto Hwy 1693 in Korea.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindKorea-Menifee County dispatch reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Artville Road and Dan Ridge Road.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindKorea-Trees were blown down on Old Slate Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKorea-Two trees across Highway 1693.

Every storm recorded in Menifee 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
Back (historical)1.2 miles14
Dan1.4 miles14
Artville1.5 miles14
Wellington2.6 miles12
Pine Grove (historical)2.7 miles14
Craft (historical)3.2 miles14
Big Woods3.3 miles14
Botts (historical)3.5 miles12

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 KoreaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6431582The 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 513178. 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.