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Reedville, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Willard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41143. It stands on Huff Run. The Survey maps it on the Grayson quadrangle.

Reedville within Carter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

142 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Reedville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,465 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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 burning55
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 August 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 June 2012Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKATIE ROAD
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON LA
21 June 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Arson/incendiarism50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carter 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 Reedville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Hitchens WorksClayProducer

Every working recorded in Carter County

Storms near this place

3 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reedville in 3 storm reports between 2021 and 2022: 2 flood, 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
March 2022FloodReedville$500High water flowed along Hardy Branch Road south of the community of Hitchins.
March 2022FloodReedville$500High water was observed along Campbell Road south of the community of Hitchins.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindReedville$500A small tree was blown down along with several large limbs along New Castle Lane.

Every storm recorded in Carter 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
Johns Run0.9 miles15
Davy Run (historical)1.3 miles15
Gollihue1.3 miles15
Mount Savage1.4 miles15
Straight Creek2.1 miles15
Hitchins2.1 miles15
Fairview Hill2.4 miles15
Denton2.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508916. 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.