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Quality, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rochester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42256. It stands on Duncan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quality quadrangle. It stands 502 feet above sea level.

Quality within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Quality between 1997 and 2016, burning about 179 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
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 April 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Recreation and ceremony3.2 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUNMORE CR
5 March 2010Recreation and ceremony17 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 March 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryANDERSON STORE
25 March 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quality in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
February 2018Thunderstorm WindQuality$25,000A barn was damaged and a large tree was uprooted along Huntsville-Quality Road.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindQuality-The Butler County emergency manager reported 12 inch diameter trees snapped beside Highway 1153 near Quality.
May 2010Flash FloodQuality-Dallam Creek Bridge Rd. was closed between mile markers 4 and 6.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindQuality-Trees were downed across roads in southern Butler County. One was across State Highway 106 near the Logan County line.
June 1997Tornado (F0)Quality-Local Fire Department and DES reported a weak F0 tornado briefly touched down downing several trees.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindQuality-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Butler 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
Toy Spring (historical)2.0 miles11
Harper Crossroads2.3 miles11
Forgytown (historical)2.6 miles11
Harreldsville2.6 miles11
Mount Zion (historical)2.7 miles11
Rock Springs (historical)2.7 miles11
Boston3.3 miles11
Townsville (historical)3.9 miles11

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 QualityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691125The 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 508888. 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.