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Odds, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Paintsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41265. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Offutt quadrangle. It stands 640 feet above sea level.

Odds within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

170 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Odds between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,384 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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 burning57
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony26
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 302
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning2.2 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryAUXIER
18 June 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Odds: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Levisa Fork Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odds in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 2 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 2020Thunderstorm WindOdds-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree downed on Millers Creek Road near Odds.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOdds-A tree was blown down and onto Stone Coal Rd.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Nero2.7 miles18
Van Lear3.6 miles17
Meally3.8 miles16
Williamsport4.9 miles16
West Van Lear5.1 miles17
East Point5.2 miles17
Dawkins5.4 miles17
Hagerhill5.7 miles17

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 OddsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7077523The 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 508733. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.