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Privett, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the McKee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40486. It stands on Jacks Branch. The Survey maps it on the McKee quadrangle.

Privett within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 13 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Privett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,027 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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 burning81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Arson/incendiarism54
Recreation and ceremony25
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest290
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Privett in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 4 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
March 2012Thunderstorm WindPrivett$3,000A few trees were blown down 1 mile northeast of Privett.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPrivett-Two trees were downed along Hwy-421 near the Jackson County Water Company.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPrivett-A tree was blown down on Kelly Road near the Privett Community.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindPrivett-The Jackson County dispatch reported that strong thunderstorm wind gusts had knocked down multiple trees onto KY-587.

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
Huff (historical)1.4 miles13
Mummie1.7 miles14
Oak Grove (historical)1.8 miles13
Gray Hawk2.2 miles13
Smith (historical)2.6 miles13
Herd2.9 miles13
Hickory Flat (historical)3.2 miles14
Travis (historical)3.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122560275The 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 514774. 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.