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Ozark, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the White Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Oil Well Branch. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. It stands 883 feet above sea level.

Ozark within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

33 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Ozark between 1998 and 2016, burning about 143 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning17
Recreation and ceremony7
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
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
26 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 May 2014Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBY-PASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ozark: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Patton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Williams QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ozark in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 3 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindOzark$4,000An open equipment storage shed was blown over.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindOzark-There was a tree down across Reeves Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindOzark-Tree were reported down along Highway 80.

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Concord (historical)1.4 miles10
Craycraft1.8 miles10
Joppa2.0 miles10
Garlin2.6 miles9
Oak Grove (historical)2.7 miles10
Green Hills3.1 miles9
Longview (historical)3.6 miles9
Gentrys Mill4.1 miles10

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 OzarkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7116470The 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 508769. 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.