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Mize, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grassy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41352. It stands on Caskey Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle. It stands 817 feet above sea level.

Mize within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

80 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Mize between 1998 and 2020, burning about 726 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG
3 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism125 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG BRANCH
7 April 2002Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

10 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mize in 10 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
February 2012Tornado (EF2)Mize$100,000A storm damage team from the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky confirmed that an EF-2 tornado touched down in Morgan county on February 29, 2012. The tornado touched down about 6 miles southwest of West Liberty near the town of Grassy Creek. The tornado track was not continuous, but instead made several touchdowns and liftoffs before dissipating near the community of Malone. Winds were estimated at around 120 mph. Several structures were damaged along the path of the tornado, with the most extreme damage occurring to a residential structure in the Malone area.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindMize$10,000Dispatch reported trees blown down on U.S. Highway 460 near Murphy Fork Road west of Mize. Tree damage also occurred near Cannel City while a utility pole was snapped.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindMize$8,000The roof was blown off a barn.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindMize$1,000Winds caused a tree to blow down on telephone lines.
February 2019Flash FloodMize-Swift water was observed flowing over the roadway near Grassy Creek by a citizen.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindMize-A tree was blown down and across a phone line on Hwy 203.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindMize-Multiple trees were blown down on Hwy 460.
May 2007Thunderstorm WindMize-Several large limbs down. Limbs blocked one lane of the road.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindMize-Numerous trees were down on Highways 203 and 460.
May 2011HailMize-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Grassy Creek1.6 miles14
Pekin1.6 miles14
Caskey Fork (historical)2.3 miles14
Rexville2.5 miles14
Right Fork (historical)2.7 miles14
Nickell3.1 miles14
Murphyfork3.2 miles14
Bonny3.4 miles14

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 MizeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6884613The 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 508620. 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.