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Ralph, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Fordsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42368. It stands on Taylor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dundee quadrangle.

Ralph within Ohio County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

20 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Ralph between 1997 and 2017, burning about 98 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony9
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism2

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
27 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBELLS FIRE
27 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROAD BANK FIRE
9 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2001Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 March 2017Debris and open burning1.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFREINDSHIP
20 March 2012Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryOVERHANGIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ohio County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ralph in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRalph-A tree was uprooted in a yard along New Cut Road.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRalph-Trained spotters reported downed trees blocking the road near the intersection of State Road 764 and State Road 1738.
June 2010Flash FloodRalph-Highway 1414 at Magen Road had several inches of water over the roadway.
May 2012HailRalph-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ohio 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
Adaburg1.9 miles13
Magan2.4 miles13
Deanefield3.3 miles12
Aetnaville4.5 miles12
Bells Run5.1 miles13
Taffy5.3 miles13
Dundee5.3 miles13
Sunnydale5.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508897. 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.