Morgan, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falmouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41040. It stands on Fork Lick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berry quadrangle.

Morgan within Pendleton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1930 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Berry quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Louisville quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Falmouth quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Morgan between 1998 and 2014, burning about 44 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
11 April 1999	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 March 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ANTROBUS RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pendleton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Morgan in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Morgan	$5,000	Numerous trees downed, some across roads.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Morgan	$3,000	Trees and power lines were reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
April 2008	Flash Flood	Morgan	$2,000	Four roads were flooded across the county.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Morgan	$1,000	A tree was reported down across a road.

Every storm recorded in Pendleton 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Callensville (historical)	0.7 miles	9
Fruit Hill (historical)	2.6 miles	11
Hayes	3.6 miles	10
Durbintown	3.7 miles	9
Marcus	4.2 miles	9
Four Oaks	4.8 miles	10
Ezra (historical)	4.8 miles	9
Goforth	5.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 498582. 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.