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Mannsville, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mannsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42758. The Survey maps it on the Mannsville quadrangle. It stands 738 feet above sea level.

Mannsville 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

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Mannsville between 1999 and 2017, burning about 264 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony4
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
8 August 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAYES
13 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2010Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2001Smokingunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taylor County

Storms near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mannsville in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2020LightningMannsville$5,000Lightning started a fire in a small building.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindMannsville$2,000Shingles were blown off a home.
June 2020Flash FloodMannsville-The fire department discovered State Road 337 was impassable due to high water while they were responding to a structure fire caused by lightning.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindMannsville-Tree uprooted reported via Facebook.
April 2016FloodMannsville-Water was flowing over the roads in the Mannsville and Acton area.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindMannsville-Law enforcement reported that two trees were toppled along Kentucky State Highway 70.
July 2009Flash FloodMannsville-High water caused State Road 70 to be closed eight miles east of Campbellsville.
June 2009Flash FloodMannsville-Two feet of water was covering HWY 70 between Mannsville and Acton, making the road impassable.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMannsville-no account filed
July 2001Thunderstorm WindMannsville-no account filed

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
Wooleyville2.7 miles9
Acton3.2 miles9
Merrimac4.5 miles9
Speck4.6 miles9
Spurlington5.0 miles9
Arista5.7 miles11
Elk Horn6.1 miles11
Yuma6.8 miles9

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 MannsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6750955The 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 497499. 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.