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Peoples, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Pond Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parrot quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Peoples within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

99 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Peoples between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,284 acres in total. None started naturally. 31 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/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPEOPLE'S FIRE
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 June 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 1995Arson/incendiarism10 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRENFRO 1
5 April 1995Arson/incendiarism80 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRENFRO 2
4 April 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 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 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Peoples in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
April 2007Thunderstorm WindPeoples$1,000Tree blown down on Highway 30W near the Laurel county line.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPeoples-Jackson County Dispatch reported a tree down on the 5700 block of KY-577 in Annville, KY.
March 2021FloodPeoples-The intersection of KY Highways 577 and 3630 are covered by high water.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindPeoples-The roof of a porch of a mobile home was blown off.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindPeoples-Six trees down along Highways 577 and 30 3 miles inside the Jackson and Laurel County line.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPeoples-Several trees were down.
June 1996HailPeoples-no account filed

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
Eberle1.6 miles14
Laurel Branch (historical)1.6 miles14
Cornelius2.9 miles14
Moores Creek3.1 miles13
Seven Pines (historical)3.6 miles14
Dabolt3.6 miles14
Bond4.0 miles13
Flatton (historical)4.1 miles14

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 PeoplesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7166044The 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 514489. 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.