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Manntown, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bryan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42629. It stands on Rock Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Creelsboro quadrangle.

Manntown within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Manntown between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,807 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
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
20 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use150 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHIPPOORWILL FIRE
14 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1998Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2010Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCROCUS
25 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROWENEA
2 April 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manntown in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2021Thunderstorm WindManntown-There were multiple trees down on power lines, mainly along and near Highway 127 North.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindManntown-State officials reported trees down on Highway 127.
September 2010Thunderstorm WindManntown-Trees were blown down near Lake Cumberland.

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Helm1.3 miles9
Long Bottom1.7 miles9
Creelsboro2.0 miles9
Rowena2.9 miles9
Old Olga3.3 miles9
Bryan4.2 miles9
Ribbon4.2 miles9
Freedom4.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122551000The 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 508533. 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.