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Little Sandy, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41171. It stands on Neal Howard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Hook quadrangle. It stands 787 feet above sea level.

Little Sandy within Elliott County

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

88 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Little Sandy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3,220 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning33
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMOBILE HOM
24 June 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOWARDS CREEK
30 April 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning130 acresKentucky Division of ForestryB.L. LEWIS
29 April 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 April 2009Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little Sandy in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2015FloodLittle Sandy$1,000Some nuisance flooding was reported mainly in the west end of the county where water was flowing onto roads due to clogged ditches.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindLittle Sandy-A tree was blown down on Hwy 173.

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Faye1.2 miles10
Bascom1.8 miles10
Wells Creek (historical)2.0 miles10
The Ridge2.4 miles10
Spanglin2.7 miles10
Devil Fork (historical)3.0 miles10
Bigstone3.1 miles10
Sandy Hook3.4 miles10

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 Little SandyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6651834The 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 496856. 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.