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Queendale, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ashers Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40913. It stands on Paul Ashers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Creekville quadrangle.

Queendale within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Queendale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,022 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 109 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
Arson/incendiarism109
Debris and open burning46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSAWDUST
6 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning500 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPOTATO KNOB
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBOWENS TRASH
24 September 2008Arson/incendiarism270 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBRUSHY FIRE
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresDaniel Boone National ForestRAVEN ROCK
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism150 acresDaniel Boone National ForestMAYBERRY MORE
29 June 2007Natural21 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queendale in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
November 1996Flash FloodQueendale$10,000no account filed
July 2024Thunderstorm WindQueendale$2,000Trees and powerlines were blown down near Work Camp Drive, at the Red Bird Mission Work Camp in the Red Bird community.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindQueendale-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree blown down on Kentucky Highway 66 west of Roark.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindQueendale-Department of Highway officials reported a tree down on Kentucky Highway 66 between Peabody and Roark.
January 2006HailQueendale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Gardner3.0 miles18
Ashers Fork3.4 miles13
Spring Creek3.6 miles13
Creekville4.7 miles13
Brightshade6.9 miles13
Marcum7.0 miles13
Plank7.6 miles13
Botto9.4 miles13

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 Q122573355The 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 514807. 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.