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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Central City quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Central City West quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Central City West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1983 USGS Madisonville quadrangle1:100000
- 1997 USGS Central City West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
69 since 1999Regional 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/undetermined | 27 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | GAS WELL |
| 4 September 1999 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 27 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 165 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 16 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 503 COMPLEX |
| 7 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Cypress | $5,000 | Several trees were downed in Graham by merging thunderstorms. |
| October 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | New Cypress | $2,000 | A 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 2024 | Hail | New Cypress | - | A picture of hail up to one inch was posted from Graham. |
| April 2016 | Funnel Cloud | New 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 1996 | Hail | New Cypress | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Graham | 2.1 miles | 14 | |
| Depoy | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Nebo | 2.5 miles | 16 | |
| Luzerne | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Gordon (historical) | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Morehead | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| East Union (historical) | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Midland | 3.8 miles | 16 |
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.







