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Sadler, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Caneyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42754. It stands on Mud Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bee Spring quadrangle.

Sadler within Grayson 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

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sadler between 1997 and 2015, burning about 1,170 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/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
2 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKEY CEMETE
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 1999Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Equipment and vehicle use50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Debris and open burning182 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sadler in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2010: 1 hail, 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
October 2010Thunderstorm WindSadler-A tree was blown down at 1471 Decker School Rd.
May 2003HailSadler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grayson 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
South2.6 miles13
Shrewsbury3.0 miles12
Windyville4.5 miles13
Anneta4.8 miles15
Moutardier4.8 miles15
Meredith6.0 miles12
Conoloway6.3 miles15
Peth6.4 miles12

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 SadlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q24191605The 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 508995. 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.