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Mac, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Saloma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42718. The Survey maps it on the Hibernia quadrangle.

Mac within Taylor County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Mac between 1999 and 2011, burning about 64 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2000Debris and open burning2.1 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor 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 Mac: 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
Badger Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mac in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMac$200,000Thunderstorm winds destroyed an older barn and heavily damaged a newer one to the west of Campbellsville. In the Mannsville area, straight line winds caused moderate to severe damage to a business.
January 2008Thunderstorm WindMac$100,000Thunderstorm winds damaged the walls of a lumber company in Campbellsville. A lumber shed was flipped over and destroyed. Winds damaged a restaurant sign in Campbellsville. Thunderstorm winds also downed numerous trees.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindMac-A flag pole was damaged by strong winds in northwestern Taylor County.
September 2022Flash FloodMac-A water rescue of a vehicle occurred near the intersection of Kentucky Route 210 and Kentucky Route 569.
July 2018HailMac-There was hail reported in the Mac Community.

Every storm recorded in Taylor 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
Pitman1.9 miles9
White Rose3.0 miles9
Badger3.9 miles9
Bengal4.0 miles9
Maple4.4 miles9
Hibernia4.8 miles9
Durhamtown5.1 miles9
Willowtown5.9 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508520. 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.