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Price, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McDowell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41636. It lies near Indian Grave Hollow. The Survey maps it on the McDowell quadrangle.

Price within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

300 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Price between 1997 and 2020, burning about 18,001 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined68
Arson/incendiarism63
Recreation and ceremony48
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3

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 1999Arson/incendiarism75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Debris and open burning1,500 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined165 acresKentucky Division of ForestryRILEYS BRANCH
22 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Price in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPrice-A tree was downed onto Hwy-122 in the Hi Hat community.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindPrice-The roofs of numerous structures were damage in Price.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindPrice-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Hi Hat1.0 miles18
Orkney1.9 miles18
Buckingham2.3 miles19
Jacks Creek2.6 miles19
Burton3.1 miles19
East McDowell3.2 miles18
Dema3.6 miles17
Wheelwright Junction3.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 501316. 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.