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Maggard, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Rock Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salyersville North quadrangle. It stands 856 feet above sea level.

Maggard within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

323 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Maggard between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,604 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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 burning140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Arson/incendiarism49
Recreation and ceremony40
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
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
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2008Debris and open burning6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning29 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMINEFORK RD
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maggard in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 hail. 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
May 2004HailMaggard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Plutarch1.5 miles15
Lickburg1.9 miles15
Bloomington2.6 miles12
Ever3.1 miles15
Cisco3.1 miles12
Wonnie3.2 miles12
Edna3.4 miles12
Cyrus3.4 miles15

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 MaggardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6730138The 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 508525. 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.