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Pierce, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Donansburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42743. It stands on North Fork Trammell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Exie quadrangle. It stands 801 feet above sea level.

Pierce within Green County

On record in Pierce

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Pierce between 1998 and 2017, burning about 328 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySAM GENTRY
2 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 March 1998Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 February 2009Recreation and ceremony50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Green County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pierce in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. 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 1996Tornado (F0)Pierce$20,000no account filed
April 2025Thunderstorm WindPierce-There was roof damage to a home on James Wallace Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindPierce-A tree was blown down across Kentucky Route 218 near R Bishop Lane.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindPierce-Downed trees blocked Highway 218 and Liletown Road.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindPierce-Trees were downed. One was blown on to Highway 218 southwest of Pierce near the Metcalfe County line.
July 2013HailPierce-no account filed
April 2006HailPierce-no account filed
March 1997HailPierce-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Green 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
Newt2.3 miles9
Grab2.7 miles9
Liletown3.2 miles9
Crailhope3.6 miles11
Donansburg3.6 miles11
Little Barren4.1 miles9
Thurlow4.2 miles9
Exie4.2 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 PierceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7191762The 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 500569. 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.