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Peabody, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Big Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40914. It stands on Little Double Creek. The Survey maps it on the Big Creek quadrangle. It stands 846 feet above sea level.

Peabody within Clay County

On record in Peabody

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Peabody between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,320 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 121 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/incendiarism121
Debris and open burning79
Missing data/not specified/undetermined41
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestDRY
28 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestTIRES
19 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTREE
7 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPEABODY HOUSE
29 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSUGAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peabody in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
February 2009Thunderstorm WindPeabody$3,000Powerlines were downed near the Hal Rogers Parkway near mile marker 31 1 mile west of Peabody.
March 2021Heavy RainPeabody-The CHTK2 (Peabody) RAWS observing site measured 2.06 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindPeabody-Two trees were down on Highway 421 at Elk Creek.
April 2002HailPeabody-no account filed

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
Big Creek2.0 miles13
Marcum2.6 miles13
Eriline3.4 miles13
Hector3.5 miles13
Mouth of Hector (historical)3.9 miles13
Creekville4.8 miles13
Jacks Creek5.0 miles13
Plank5.3 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 PeabodyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7157213The 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 514465. 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.