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Malone, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the West Liberty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Village Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle. It stands 797 feet above sea level.

Malone within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

103 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Malone between 1997 and 2020, burning about 998 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism23
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2013Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 460-1081 INTERSECTION
22 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malone in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindMalone$20,000There were numerous trees blown down across 844 in Stacy Fork. The largest trees was a Willow tree approximately 20 inches in diameter.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindMalone-A department of highways official reported a large tree down on Kentucky Highway 191 south of West Liberty.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMalone-A tree fell onto Caudill Road off of Hwy 705.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMalone-A tree fell on Caudill Rd off of Hwy 705.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindMalone-Large tree limbs were blown down.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindMalone-Large tree limbs were blown down. Wind speeds were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2013FloodMalone-Highway 191 was impassable for a time due to flood waters.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindMalone-Trees down.
May 2004Flash FloodMalone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Gordon Ford1.3 miles14
Stacy Fork2.1 miles14
Jones Creek (historical)2.1 miles14
Greear2.1 miles14
Index2.3 miles14
Panama2.8 miles14
Liberty Road3.0 miles14
Cottle3.1 miles14

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 MaloneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6744491The 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 508527. 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.