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Ned, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Hardshell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41348. It stands on Perkins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Haddix quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Ned within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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, 1940

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.

Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand school, Breathitt County, Kentucky
Many parents and young people from the school and nearby communities attend the pie and box supper, given by the school to raise money for additional repairs and supplies. Each box or pie is auctioned off to the highest bidder, sometimes bringing a good deal, since the girl's "boyfriend" usually wins and has the privilege of eating it with her afterwards. Quicksand school, Breathitt County, Kentucky
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

421 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 421 fires within 5 miles of Ned between 1997 and 2020, burning about 20,434 acres in total. None started naturally. 106 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 burning184
Arson/incendiarism106
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Recreation and ceremony23
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAIRPORT WAY RD.
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOST MTN #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ned in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 4 hail, 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
May 2025FloodNed-A photo shared on social media showed a small stream (Cockrell Fork) flooding out of its banks and over Cockrells Fork Road in the community of Ned.
May 2025HailNed-A photo was shared on social media of multiple hail stones at least 2 inches in diameter near the community of Ned.
May 2025HailNed-A photo on social media showed 2 to 2.50-inch diameter hail stones in the community of Ned.
May 2016HailNed-A trained spotter observed up to golf ball size hail in between Lost Creek and Ned.
February 2003HailNed-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Watts3.4 miles13
Hardshell3.5 miles13
Clayhole4.3 miles13
Roosevelt5.1 miles13
Noble5.2 miles15
Little5.3 miles13
Flintville5.5 miles13
Whick5.7 miles13

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 NedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691023The 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 508680. 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.