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Mildred, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Grassy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.

Mildred 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Mildred between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,397 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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 burning110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Arson/incendiarism46
Recreation and ceremony35
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 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
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest290
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mildred in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 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
September 2020FloodMildred$5,000Water was reported over Mac Stevens Road making it impassable. After the water resided, a section of the asphalt had been washed away on the road.
September 2020FloodMildred$2,000Water was reported over Dunigam Road near the community of Tyner as water from an adjacent creek overflowed its banks.

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
Tyner1.4 miles13
Blooming Grove (historical)1.8 miles13
Oak Grove (historical)1.9 miles13
Zekes Point2.1 miles13
Olin2.1 miles13
Welchburg2.3 miles13
Atkinstown2.7 miles13
Herd2.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 513960. 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.