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Noris, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Adams census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41230. It lies near Miller Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Richardson quadrangle.

Noris within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Noris between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,245 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
25 September 2010Recreation and ceremony25 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINEY POINT FARM
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCHARLIE HOLLOW
29 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Noris in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
April 2025FloodNoris-A water rescue occurred at the intersection of Route 1760 and Left Fork Little Blaine Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Charley1.7 miles17
Ledocio2.2 miles23
Meades Branch (historical)2.5 miles17
Kise (historical)3.2 miles17
Wilbur3.6 miles17
Georges Creek3.6 miles17
Cordell4.0 miles15
Adams4.0 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508720. 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.