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Quincy, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Garrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41166. It stands on Briery Branch. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Quincy within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

79 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Quincy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,691 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2017Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAPPLE TREE/ SR 784
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestrySOCS DR.
14 July 1999Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 May 1997Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Quincy: 1 past producer. None of them 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
Horner MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quincy in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
September 2025Thunderstorm WindQuincy$2,000A tree was downed onto wires and blocked several driveways along Kentucky Drive.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindQuincy$2,000Trees were reported down across railroad tracks due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindQuincy$2,000Powerlines were knocked down.
August 2018FloodQuincy-Water was reported over Montgomery Road near Garrison.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Garrison2.6 miles14
Rexton3.8 miles11
Saint Paul4.0 miles14
Upper Bruce (historical)4.4 miles14
Firebrick6.2 miles14
Kirkville6.9 miles14
Buena Vista7.0 miles14
Tannery7.1 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.

Wikipedia article on QuincyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622101The 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 501486. 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.