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Maulden, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40486. It stands on Maulden Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maulden quadrangle.

Maulden within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

299 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Maulden between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,002 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 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 burning121
Missing data/not specified/undetermined89
Arson/incendiarism58
Recreation and ceremony28
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maulden in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindMaulden$7,000Several trees were blown down about 2 miles off the Owsley county line.
December 2000Flash FloodMaulden$1,000Sturgeon Creek overflowed into car along KY Hwy 1709.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindMaulden-Dispatch relayed reports of trees downed on Kentucky Highway 577 southeast of Egypt.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Herd0.7 miles13
Zekes Point1.1 miles13
Tyner2.0 miles13
Oak Grove (historical)2.3 miles13
Union (historical)2.5 miles13
Mummie2.6 miles14
Elias3.1 miles14
Mildred3.1 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 Q122570348The 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 513826. 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.