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Manuel, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Krypton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41701. It stands on Buck Branch. The Survey maps it on the Krypton quadrangle.

Manuel within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

558 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 558 fires within 5 miles of Manuel between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24,659 acres in total. None started naturally. 132 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 burning224
Missing data/not specified/undetermined163
Arson/incendiarism132
Recreation and ceremony33
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning289 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARWICK
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERIFFS COURT
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAIRPORT WAY RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Manuel in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 6 deaths. 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 2022Flash FloodManuel6 killedMultiple reports of flash flooding were made across northeast Perry County, especially along Troublesome Creek. Reports included:||12:10 AM EST - Flash flood waters were reported over KY-476 in the Dwarf area. |2:00 AM EST - Pictures on social media show multiple homes swept away by flash flood waters along Lost Creek, adjacent to the intersection of KY-15 and Lost Creek-Dice Road. |2:30 AM EST - Robinson Elementary School was completed inundated by flash flood waters from Troublesome Creek.|2:30 AM EST - Pigeonroon-Bulan Road is innundated near the KY-476 intersection by flash flooding from Troublesome Creek.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindManuel-A tree was reportedly blown down on Grapevine Road (KY-28) near the intersection with KY-15.
June 2019HailManuel-A citizen observed penny sized hail east of Chavies.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Lamont0.5 miles13
Red Hill (historical)1.9 miles13
Mudlick (historical)2.0 miles13
Campbell (historical)2.4 miles13
Napfor2.6 miles13
Chavies2.7 miles13
Engle3.0 miles13
Lead Branch (historical)3.1 miles13

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 Q122552956The 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 513773. 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.