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Revelo, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stearns-Whitley City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42647. It stands on Battery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitley City quadrangle. It stands 1,404 feet above sea level.

Revelo within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Revelo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,249 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 88 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
Arson/incendiarism88
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Debris and open burning150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1651
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPINE KNOT
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBACKBONE
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHAYNES
19 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Revelo in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 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
June 1997Tornado (F0)Revelo$5,000A small tornado downed trees and power lines.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindRevelo-A tree was reported down on East Appletree Road, about 0.4 miles from the intersection with KY-1651.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindRevelo-A tree was reported down on Round Top Road west of Pine Knot.
March 2021Heavy RainRevelo-The cooperative observing station just south of Stearns reported 3.16 inches of rainfall in a 24 hour period.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindRevelo-Dispatch reported trees were blown down on Journeys End Road near Stearns.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRevelo-Thunderstorm wind gusts damaged the roof of a structure in the Murphy subdivision.
July 2014Funnel CloudRevelo-A funnel cloud was observed 3 miles south of Whitley City.
July 2014HailRevelo-Quarter size hail was observed in Revelo.
June 2009FloodRevelo-Streams were at bankful near Strunk.
May 2009HailRevelo-no account filed
April 2002HailRevelo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Hickory Grove1.0 miles16
Stearns1.1 miles16
Smith Town2.3 miles9
Whitley City2.8 miles16
Pine Knot2.8 miles16
Barthell2.9 miles9
Worley3.5 miles9
Gilreath3.8 miles16

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 ReveloAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7317871The 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 514894. 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.