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Moore Hill, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Corbin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40701. It stands on Spider Creek. The Survey maps it on the Corbin quadrangle.

Moore Hill within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Moore Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 792 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning40
Recreation and ceremony20
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2007Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 August 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEGLEY
19 August 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest3 SISTERS
13 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestLAUREL BRIDGE
3 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAWDUST PI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox 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 Moore Hill: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
No. 1 MillClayPlant
No. 1 MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

10 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moore Hill in 10 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindMoore Hill$3,000A few trees were blown down along KY 6 southeast of Corbin.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoore Hill$2,000Two trees were down on Woodbine Avenue.
November 2010Flash FloodMoore Hill$1,000The road was closed near Tower and county highway 3436.
May 2020Flash FloodMoore Hill$200A citizen observed water flowing over Master Street in Corbin, along with local streams overspilling their banks.
May 2022FloodMoore Hill-A large portion of Master Street near North Corbin was closed due to flooding.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMoore Hill-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree down east of Corbin.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindMoore Hill-Trees were down.
July 2003HailMoore Hill-no account filed
July 2003HailMoore Hill-no account filed
May 2002HailMoore Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Siler2.2 miles17
Candle Ridge3.5 miles17
Wilton3.6 miles17
Gray3.9 miles17
Rossland5.0 miles18
Arkle5.7 miles18
Dishman Springs7.7 miles17
Emanuel8.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514044. 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.