Liberty, Kentucky

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.

• 1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1952 USGS Wofford quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
• 1969 USGS Wofford quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1997 and 2019, burning about 3,740 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Redbird
• Bon
• Goldbug
• Clio
• Jellico Creek
• Highland Park

Every fire recorded in Whitley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Whitley County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513369. 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.