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New Zion, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the McKee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on New Zion Ridge. The Survey maps it on the McKee quadrangle.

New Zion within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of New Zion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,622 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 100 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
Arson/incendiarism100
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWILD DOG
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism45 acresDaniel Boone National ForestGRASSY FORK
12 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRADER RIDGE
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism60 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRADAR RIDGE
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSTEER FORK
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHALE RIDGE #2
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestFARMERS RIDGE #1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Zion in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 8 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 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Zion$3,000The county dispatch office reported trees down along KY Hwy 587 two miles south of New Zion.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Jackson County 911 Center reported a tree down on 5000 block of KY 587, near New Zion Cemetery.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Tyner Fire Department reported a tree blown down in the Daniel Boone National Forecast blocking Turkey Foot Road near the intersection with KY-587. The fire department removed the tree.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-A tree was blown down on Hwy 587 in New Zion.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Barn doors were blown off and sections of fence were removed on New Zion Ridge Road.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Trees were blown down.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Trees were reported downed in New Zion and Turkey Foot.
December 2000Thunderstorm WindNew Zion-Trees down across KY Hwy 587 near New Zion and Turkey Foot.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Turkey Foot1.2 miles13
Travis (historical)3.1 miles14
Lakes3.2 miles13
Wind Cave3.4 miles13
Sparks (historical)3.7 miles13
Huff (historical)3.7 miles13
Macedonia3.8 miles13
Smith (historical)4.0 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 New ZionAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96395420The 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 514251. 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.