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Rexville, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannel City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41332. It stands on Nickell Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle.

Rexville within Morgan 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

108 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Rexville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 937 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCAMP BRANCH
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG
3 May 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 May 2000Arson/incendiarism125 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG BRANCH
9 April 1999Recreation and ceremony26 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rexville in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindRexville-Trees and power lines were blown down on Hwy 203.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Caskey Fork (historical)0.5 miles14
Right Fork (historical)1.9 miles14
Salem2.1 miles14
Mize2.5 miles14
Nickell2.5 miles14
Murphyfork2.6 miles14
Sellars2.8 miles14
Grassy Creek3.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 508926. 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.