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Mary, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Campton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41301. It stands on Bear Pen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Campton quadrangle.

Mary within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

125 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Mary between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,506 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony24
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBRUSH CREEK ROAD
18 September 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAVE BRANCH ROAD
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMULLINS POINT
11 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBAPTIST ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mary in 1 storm report in 2000: 1 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
April 2000Thunderstorm WindMary-Trees down.

Every storm recorded in Wolfe 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
Antioch (historical)0.1 miles12
Vortex2.1 miles12
Mullins Point (historical)2.2 miles12
Rye (historical)2.3 miles12
Grannie3.1 miles12
Bethany3.6 miles13
Hollonville3.6 miles13
Nelson (historical)3.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513814. 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.