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Princess, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ashland South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41102. It stands on Straight Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

Princess within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

130 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Princess between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,582 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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/undetermined35
Recreation and ceremony30
Debris and open burning29
Arson/incendiarism27
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1998Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 July 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryREBEL ROAD
19 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Princess: 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buena Vista Clay BedClayProspect
Clinton Shale MineClayPast Producer
Princess Mine Big RunClayProducer

Every working recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Princess in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 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
June 2017Flash FloodPrincess$60,000Williams Creek was out of its banks. Water made it into multiple homes.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindPrincess$50,000Measured on a Davis Weather Station mounted on the roof of the Boyd County Emergency Operations Center. Several buildings in the Industrial Park suffered damage to their roofs and their garage doors were blown in.
June 2000Flash FloodPrincess$15,000Williams Creek came out of its banks and threatened homes along Route 5. Water receded before any evacuations were needed.
June 1998Flash FloodPrincess$10,000no account filed
July 2014Thunderstorm WindPrincess$5,000Trees were blown down from along Straight Creek Road to Daniels Fork Road northwest of Summit.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPrincess$250Local roadways near the town of Princess were blocked by downed trees.
February 2025FloodPrincess-Flooding was observed along Green Springer Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPrincess-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Coalton1.7 miles15
Cannonsburg2.3 miles22
Meads2.6 miles22
Little Garner (historical)3.3 miles22
Rockdale3.3 miles22
Mavity3.8 miles21
Rush4.1 miles15
Summit4.2 miles22

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 PrincessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7244496The 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 501349. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.