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Ryan, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41093. It stands on Mudlick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cranston quadrangle.

Ryan within Fleming County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Ryan between 1996 and 2020, burning about 897 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
22 September 2007Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Natural10 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEN HAM
7 July 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBEN HAM
8 April 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSCHOOLHOUSE
8 April 2017Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryISLAND FORK
6 April 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined146 acresDaniel Boone National ForestISLAND FORK
4 April 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTHURMAN BR
4 April 2010Recreation and ceremony9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fleming County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryan in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 flash 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
July 2015Flash FloodRyan$1,000Ryan Road near Muses Mills was closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Fleming 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
Muses Mills2.7 miles8
Park Lake Resort (historical)4.4 miles8
Plummers Landing5.4 miles8
Plummers Mill6.6 miles8
Goddard7.0 miles8
Wallingford7.3 miles8
Carpentersville (historical)7.4 miles8
Pea Ridge (historical)7.8 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 515152. 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.