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Matlock, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Woodburn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42104. The Survey maps it on the Drake quadrangle.

Matlock within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Matlock between 1999 and 2012, burning about 24 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 November 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWILL PAYNE
26 October 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Matlock in 2 storm reports in 2019: 2 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 2019Thunderstorm WindMatlock-A tree was reported down on Matlock Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindMatlock-A tree was reported down on Old Union Church Road.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Old Union (historical)1.8 miles14
White Chapel (historical)2.7 miles14
Drake3.0 miles14
Woodburn3.3 miles9
Old Trinity (historical)4.1 miles16
Plano4.1 miles16
Boyce4.6 miles14
Old Zion (historical)4.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508558. 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.