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Ogle, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ashers Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Baileys Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ogle quadrangle. It stands 994 feet above sea level.

Ogle within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Ogle between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,180 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 86 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/incendiarism86
Debris and open burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
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
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 May 1993Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forestnot named
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ogle in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 flash 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
March 2021Flash FloodOgle-A public report was received of an ongoing water rescue on May Fork Road (Left Fork Otter Creek Road) just before 5am, involving 4 people being rescued from their mobile home as waters rose from nearby Otter Creek. About 30 mins later, 911 dispatch reported that water rescues were still ongoing on May Fork Road and were becoming increasingly difficult as roads were becoming more inundated and flooded from rising waters in the area.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Lincoln2.4 miles13
Brightshade2.8 miles13
Goose Rock4.3 miles13
Botto4.3 miles13
Plank4.7 miles13
Park Valley (historical)4.8 miles13
Collins Station (historical)5.3 miles13
Cottongim5.4 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 OgleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7080089The 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 514310. 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.