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Nebo, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42345. The Survey maps it on the Greenville quadrangle.

Nebo within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Nebo between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,366 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony18
Arson/incendiarism11
Debris and open burning10
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2002Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 2010Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestry503 COMPLEX
7 August 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 August 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOVERNMENT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nebo in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 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
March 2022FloodNebo-Flooding of yards occurred along Caney Creek on the northwest side of Greenville.
April 2008FloodNebo-Kentucky Highway 70 was covered with water at the 5 mile marker, but it was not closed. Many secondary roads were covered with water. Two roads were closed, including Highway 2590 at Milton Creek and a street in Central City.

Every storm recorded in Muhlenberg 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
Hillside1.7 miles16
Luzerne1.8 miles16
Powderly1.9 miles16
Morehead2.2 miles16
Mercer2.5 miles16
New Cypress2.5 miles16
Greenville2.9 miles16
Depoy3.0 miles16

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 Q49357488The 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 508679. 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.