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Segal, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brownsville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42210. It lies near Caney Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Reedyville quadrangle.

Segal within Edmonson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Segal between 2000 and 2018, burning about 555 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySPINKS CEMETERY FIRE
23 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 July 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2001Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySLEEPY HOLLOW
7 April 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Edmonson 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 Segal: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Gully ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Edmonson County

Storms near this place

8 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Segal in 8 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flood, 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 2016Thunderstorm WindSegal$10,000A trained spotter reported a 53 knot wind gust along with power outages.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindSegal$3,000A storm survey team found that straight line wind damage occurred with large limbs broken and snapped off. A metal roof of a barn was blown off by the severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindSegal-A tree was blown down and small hail was also observed.
February 2021Flash FloodSegal-The 6500 block of Highway 655 was closed due to high water in Brownsville.
February 2018FloodSegal-Kentucky 655 closed at mile marker 2.6 due to high water and flooding.
December 2015HailSegal-A trained spotter reported hail 0.88 inch in diameter along with wind gusts estimated to be between 50 and 55 mph.
December 2013Thunderstorm WindSegal-A 67 mph wind gust was measured in Western Edmonson County.
April 2017HailSegal-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edmonson 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
Asphalt2.1 miles13
Huff3.1 miles13
Roundhill3.3 miles14
Windyville3.3 miles13
Black Gold4.7 miles13
Big Reedy5.1 miles13
Lindseyville5.2 miles13
Brownsville6.3 miles13

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 SegalAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85800234The 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 509027. 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.