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Langley, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Martin-Allen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41645. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martin quadrangle. It stands 656 feet above sea level.

Langley within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

319 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 319 fires within 5 miles of Langley between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,749 acres in total. None started naturally. 69 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 burning144
Arson/incendiarism69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined60
Recreation and ceremony45
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHOP BRANCH
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRACKER BOTTOM
25 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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 Langley: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
F-1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Langley in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 2 flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2013FloodLangley$1,000KY 550 at Langley was closed due to flooding.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindLangley-County dispatch reported a tree blown down onto KY-777 near the Kentucky Hydrocarbon Company Plant.
March 2021FloodLangley-KY-777 is blocked due to high water across the road along Turkey Creek.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Warco1.2 miles17
Eastern1.3 miles17
Northern2.1 miles17
Printer2.4 miles16
Hunter2.5 miles17
Alphoretta2.6 miles17
Hite2.6 miles17
Midas2.7 miles17

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 LangleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18154268The 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 495981. 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.