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Montpelier, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Glens Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. It stands 876 feet above sea level.

Montpelier within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

20 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Montpelier between 1998 and 2016, burning about 128 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
25 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2016Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITE OAK
11 April 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 March 1999Smoking40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 March 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Montpelier: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Patton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montpelier in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Trees were blown down at Mile Marker 56 along the Cumberland Parkway.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindMontpelier-Emergency manager reported numerous trees, power lines and power poles down done on Old Montpelier Rd. Roof damage occurred to several homes. A few barns were pushed out and silos knocked down due to severe thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Crocus3.0 miles9
Glens Fork3.5 miles9
Joppa3.8 miles10
Gum Grove4.8 miles9
Ozark4.8 miles10
Gentrys Mill4.8 miles10
Craycraft5.3 miles10
Concord (historical)5.8 miles10

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 MontpelierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690973The 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 508630. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.