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Reed, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1905 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Spottsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42451. The Survey maps it on the Reed quadrangle. It stands 377 feet above sea level.

Reed within Henderson 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

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Reed between 1999 and 2017, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
15 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUMP
28 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 July 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryBROKEN POL
6 April 2013Recreation and ceremony3.1 acresKentucky Division of ForestryREED FIRE
10 March 2017Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHATCHETT MILL ROAD
15 February 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1078

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henderson 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 Reed: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
Warrick Aluminum Reduction PlantAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant

Every working recorded in Henderson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reed in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2019Thunderstorm WindReed$5,000Several trees were down, and power was out.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindReed$3,000Power lines were downed near Reed in far eastern Henderson County as a leading storm cell intensified with the arrival of an outflow boundary ahead of the main line of storms.
October 2009HailReed-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Henderson 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
Carlinburg2.8 miles17
Beals2.8 miles14
Spottsville3.2 miles14
Bluff City3.7 miles14
Scuffletown5.0 miles17
Hebbardsville5.3 miles14
Baskett5.9 miles14
Zion7.3 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 ReedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7306605The 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 501690. 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.