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Savage, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It stands on Huff Branch. The Survey maps it on the Savage quadrangle.

Savage within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

90 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Savage between 1998 and 2019, burning about 2,869 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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 burning59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance90 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEEP MINE
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUBBARD HOLLAR
19 April 2010Debris and open burning22 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2010Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2010Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Savage: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Savage in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindSavage-Local law enforcement reported several trees down on Highway 696 near the Clinton and Wayne County lines.
March 2012HailSavage-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Cannons Mill2.3 miles11
Beech Bottom (historical)2.6 miles11
Concord (historical)2.8 miles11
Rolan2.9 miles11
Pikeview3.3 miles11
Braswell (historical)3.3 miles11
Jones Mill3.9 miles11
Bug4.2 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509018. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.