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Nancy, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Nancy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42544. It stands on Waddle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Delmer quadrangle. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.

Nancy within Pulaski County

On record in Nancy

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 5 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Mill Springs National Cemetery, 9044 West Highway 80, Nancy, Pulaski County, KY
Mill Springs National Cemetery, 9044 West Highway 80, Nancy, Pulaski County, KY
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Nancy between 1998 and 2014, burning about 66 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
9 April 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony17 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPORTER CREEK
26 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 March 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 November 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 November 1998Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nancy: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. 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
Fishing Creek ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Pulaski County

Storms near this place

38 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nancy in 38 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 29 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2001Thunderstorm WindNancy$25,000Thunderstorm winds blew over a mobile home. A roof was blown off a garage and several 30 inch diameter trees were blown down.
June 2023HailNancy$20,000Multiple social media reports from the town of Nancy showed hail at least tennis ball size. Roof and siding damage to a few structures along the Lanetown Road was reported, likely resulting from wind driven hail. Vehicle glass was also broken.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindNancy$10,000The roof was blown off of a home on Old Ridge Road 5 miles southwest of Nancy.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNancy$10,000Power lines down in the Nancy and Faubush areas.
November 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew a roof off of a factory plant in Nancy. Numerous trees down in the area.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindNancy$8,000A large tree was blown down on the Cottage Motel near Naney and knocked the building off its foundation.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy$7,000A mobile home was overturned and porch blown off of home by high winds off KY 80 at Nancy. Telephone poles and trees down just north of Burnside.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindNancy$5,000Trees were blown down.
December 1998Thunderstorm WindNancy$5,000Roof blown off home.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy$2,000Trees and power lines down.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNancy$1,000A tree was reportedly fallen and leaning on a power line at the 200 block of Lanetown Road (W. Frye Road) in the community of Nancy.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindNancy$1,000A tree was blown down and across Gossett Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindNancy$1,000Power lines blown down.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindNancy$500A large branch was blown down and was blocking the road on KY 196.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was reported down along KY-761, with a couple additional trees blown down in the vicinity.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was downed and blocking Hwy-761 near the community of Nancy.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindNancy-Local Emergency Management reported trees were blown down and onto Kentucky Highway 80 between Nancy and Somerset. A pontoon boat was blown off of Lake Cumberland at Pulaski County Park.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindNancy-Dispatch reported a tree blown down on Kentucky Highway 196 in Nancy.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down on Lanetown Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down along Hwy 3189.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was blown down at Haney's Appledale Farm.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down.
May 2013Thunderstorm WindNancy-A large tree was blown down and onto a mobile home.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were downed.
February 2012Thunderstorm WindNancy-Tree reported down in Nancy.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindNancy-A tree was blown down on Hwy 80 West.
April 2011Funnel CloudNancy-The event occurred between 320 and 350pm.
January 2004Flash FloodNancy-Roberts Port Road, southwest of Nancy, was closed due to high water. Highway 1956 at Kentucky Highway 80 was closed and a family was evacuated due to high water. In and around Somerset, several roads were closed due to high water, including: Highway 635 at Kentucky Route 39, Route 1247 at Bodie Road, Kentucky Highway 80 East (at Pumphouse Road), and Kentucky Highway 70 at Goochtown Road.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were down in Nancy and Woodshack.
July 2003HailNancy-One inch diameter hail occurred along the Cumberland Parkway.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindNancy-Several trees were down.
August 2001Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees were blown down.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindNancy-Trees Down.
June 2006HailNancy-no account filed
June 2004HailNancy-no account filed
July 2003HailNancy-no account filed
June 2001HailNancy-no account filed
April 1999HailNancy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pulaski 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
Crackers Neck (historical)2.7 miles10
Shepola2.7 miles10
Burnetta2.9 miles8
Delmer3.0 miles10
Oil Center3.2 miles10
Sardis3.3 miles10
Hislope3.5 miles10
Norfleet3.5 miles8

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 NancyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6962508The 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 499160. 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.