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Olin, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Devils Den Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tyner quadrangle.

Olin within Jackson 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Olin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,066 acres in total. None 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 burning77
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Arson/incendiarism38
Recreation and ceremony30
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
8 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest448
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest290
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olin in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 heavy rain. 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
July 2014Flash FloodOlin$1,000Up to six inches of water was observed flowing over Dunn Rd for about 30 minutes.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindOlin$1,000One tree was blown down on KY Highway 290.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindOlin-A tree was blown down in the 400 block of Bailey Road in Annville.
January 2022Heavy RainOlin-The Kentucky Mesonet station in Jackson County (OLIN) measured 4.86 inches of rainfall in a 48-hour period ending at 7am on January 2, 2022.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindOlin-Dispatch relayed reports of multiple trees down in Olin along Highway 290 and near Old Orchard on Highway 587.
July 2012Heavy RainOlin-The Jackson county mesonet site measured 1.15 inches of rainfall between 313 and 343 pm today. The site also measured 0.21 inches of rain in a five minute period between 338 and 343 pm.
May 2009Flash FloodOlin-Numerous locations on Hwy 30 have water flowing across them.

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
Blooming Grove (historical)0.6 miles13
Pine Flat (historical)2.0 miles14
Mildred2.1 miles13
Atkinstown2.2 miles13
Annville2.3 miles13
Bond2.7 miles13
Welchburg2.9 miles13
Gray Hawk3.3 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 514348. 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.