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Phil, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dunnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Trace Fork. The Survey maps it on the Phil quadrangle. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Phil within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

51 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Phil between 1998 and 2017, burning about 1,004 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism13
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
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
30 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenance41 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTRONG BRANCH
7 April 2002Railroad operations and maintenance35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Recreation and ceremony90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phil in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
May 2023Thunderstorm WindPhil-A tree was blown down along U.S. Route 127.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPhil-One large tree was downed in Dunnville. Another tree was toppled just east of Dunnville on Kentucky 501.
March 2011HailPhil-A spotter reported nickel to quarter sized hail near the intersection of U.S. 127 and Hwy. 910.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindPhil-Two trees were downed across State Highway 910 near Phil.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindPhil-A porch was reportedly blown off of a house.
April 2006HailPhil-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Rubert Ford1.6 miles7
Labascus2.0 miles7
Evans Ford2.0 miles7
Teddy2.5 miles7
Evona2.7 miles7
Red Hill2.8 miles9
Boyle (historical)3.0 miles7
Dunnville3.2 miles9

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 PhilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7181633The 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 508815. 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.