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New Cypress, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 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 Central City West quadrangle.

New Cypress within Muhlenberg County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

69 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of New Cypress between 1999 and 2020, burning about 1,721 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony17
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGAS WELL
4 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism165 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muhlenberg County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Cypress in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Cypress$5,000Several trees were downed in Graham by merging thunderstorms.
October 2010Tornado (EF0)New Cypress$2,000A National Weather Service damage survey revealed a brief EF-0 tornado along Highway 601. Around 30 small trees were broken off. No structures were in the path of the tornado. The peak wind was estimated at 65 to 70 mph.
May 2024HailNew Cypress-A picture of hail up to one inch was posted from Graham.
April 2016Funnel CloudNew Cypress-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud passed northwest through north of Greenville. The funnel cloud and the parent mesoscale circulation moved east-northeast along and just north of the Western Kentucky Parkway.
June 1996HailNew Cypress-no account filed

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
Graham2.1 miles14
Depoy2.5 miles16
Nebo2.5 miles16
Luzerne2.8 miles16
Gordon (historical)3.4 miles13
Morehead3.6 miles16
East Union (historical)3.6 miles14
Midland3.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517323. 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.