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Scuddy, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Defiance-Vicco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41760. It stands on Scuddy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. It stands 951 feet above sea level.

Scuddy within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

408 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of Scuddy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,216 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 80 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 burning177
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Arson/incendiarism80
Recreation and ceremony27
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJEFF
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scuddy in 1 storm report in 2013: 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
August 2013Flash FloodScuddy$1,000Georges Branch Rd was affected by flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Defiance0.4 miles16
Happy0.7 miles16
Vicco1.4 miles16
Acup (historical)1.8 miles16
Allock1.8 miles16
Big Branch (historical)2.1 miles16
Fusonia2.1 miles16
Kodak2.8 miles16

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 ScuddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7439393The 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 503124. 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.