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Narvel, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cumberland City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42603. It lies near Cedar Knob. The Survey maps it on the Cumberland City quadrangle.

Narvel within Clinton 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

62 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Narvel between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,934 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning98 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2002Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2002Railroad operations and maintenance20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Narvel in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 tornado. 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
April 2008Tornado (EF2)Narvel$200,000The fourth touchdown in this family of tornadoes produced by a cyclic supercell did the most damage in Clinton County as it hit several residences in a rural subdivision along Pleasure Ridge Road. After moving through uninhabited hillside for a mile, uprooting and snapping trees in a nearly quarter-mile wide path, the tornado tore the roof of a ranch-style brick home and destroyed its nearby outbuildings. Continuing along parallel to Pleasure Ridge Road, the tornado destroyed a mobile home, barn, and grain silo in its path, and heavily damaged at least three other homes before exiting the county.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Nora1.7 miles10
Cumberland City1.8 miles10
Alpha2.4 miles10
Watauga2.4 miles10
Marlow2.5 miles10
Cartwright2.7 miles10
Williams Creek (historical)3.5 miles10
Upchurch4.4 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122543132The 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 508671. 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.