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Roff, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the McDaniels-Hudson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40178. The Survey maps it on the Kingswood quadrangle. It stands 686 feet above sea level.

Roff within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

32 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Roff between 1998 and 2019, burning about 239 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
22 September 2015Railroad operations and maintenance21 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALLMAN MCCOY LANE
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 July 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryPATRIOT SH
3 April 2011Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySAND KNOB CHURCH FIRE
19 April 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRAFFO VILLA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roff in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 4 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindRoff-Trees were down.
January 2012Thunderstorm WindRoff-The local department of highways reported several trees were downed near Roff.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindRoff-A tree and power lines were blown down in the Rough River Lake area.
May 2004Thunderstorm WindRoff-Trees were downed. Some falling trees had knocked down power lines, causing power outages.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Cave Spring0.8 miles13
Se Ree2.8 miles13
Westview2.8 miles13
Axtel3.0 miles13
Hinton Hills3.3 miles12
McCoy3.6 miles12
McDaniels3.7 miles12
Mook3.9 miles11

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 RoffAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14691172The 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 502271. 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.