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Million, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Cottonburg-Valley View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40475. It stands on Honest Branch. The Survey maps it on the Valley View quadrangle.

Million within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Million between 1999 and 2007, burning about 54 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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 burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
24 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 November 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 November 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 November 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Million in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 2025Flash FloodMillion-Shallow Ford Road was washed away and impassable due to flowing water.
July 2016Flash FloodMillion-The local fire department reported flash flooding on Crutcher Pike and a possible water rescue.
March 2013Heavy RainMillion-The local emergency manager reported a mudslide that blocked a portion of Tate's Creek Road between Whitlock and Maple Grove Roads. Around 2 inches of rain fell nearby over a 5 hour period.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMillion-A fallen tree briefly blocked Tates Creek Road.
May 2010FloodMillion-At the time of the call a swift water rescues were taking place on Tates Creek Rd. in Richmond and at Simpson Ln. west of Ford.
May 2016HailMillion-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Newby1.9 miles15
Baldwin2.3 miles15
Crow Valley3.1 miles15
Stringtown3.1 miles15
Ruthton4.1 miles15
Arlington4.4 miles16
Rosedale (historical)4.8 miles16
Valley View5.1 miles15

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 MillionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28153598The 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 508607. 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.