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Redfox, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Carr Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41847. It stands on Breeding Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackey quadrangle. It stands 1,142 feet above sea level.

Redfox within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

312 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Redfox between 1997 and 2020, burning about 10,242 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 44 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 burning132
Missing data/not specified/undetermined105
Arson/incendiarism44
Recreation and ceremony20
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Natural1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARBON GLOW
4 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redfox in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 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
May 2005Thunderstorm WindRedfox-Large tree limbs blown down.

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Breeding Creek (historical)0.5 miles18
Amelia1.3 miles18
Carr Creek1.7 miles18
Littcarr1.8 miles18
Cody (historical)2.0 miles18
Middle Carr Creek (historical)2.0 miles18
Bath2.6 miles18
Smithsboro (historical)2.9 miles18

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 RedfoxAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7305872The 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 508914. 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.