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Meador, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Settle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42164. The Survey maps it on the Meador quadrangle.

Meador within Allen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Meador between 2002 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
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
8 March 2002Recreation and ceremony16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 November 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBOATMAN RD
10 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 October 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMARTINSVILLE FORD FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Allen County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meador in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1998Tornado (F0)Meador$10,000no account filed
May 2025Flash FloodMeador-Meader-Port Oliver Road was impassable due to flowing water over the roadway.
February 2020FloodMeador-There was a report of flooding on Highway 1533.
April 2011Flash FloodMeador-Dispatch reported road closures on KY 1533, Meador Port Oliver Rd., between mile markers 0 and 3.
December 2007FloodMeador-Kentucky Route 1533 in the northern part of the county was closed due to high water.
June 1998HailMeador-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Allen 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
Stark Settlement (historical)1.4 miles9
Port Oliver Ford2.0 miles9
Settle2.5 miles11
Yesse2.9 miles11
Gainesville3.0 miles11
Raley Ford5.3 miles13
Cedar Springs5.6 miles12
Halifax5.6 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on MeadorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65074999The 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 508583. 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.