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Seventy Six, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Cumberland City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It stands on Simpsons Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek Dam quadrangle. It stands 958 feet above sea level.

Seventy Six within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Seventy Six between 1998 and 2019, burning about 1,336 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2008Debris and open burning98 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use150 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHIPPOORWILL FIRE
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seventy Six in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 1 tornado, 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 2014Thunderstorm WindSeventy Six-Local law enforcement reported trees down near the town of Seventy Six.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Seventy Six-An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-0 tornado with winds to 85 mph struck northern Clinton County about three-quarters of a mile north-northeast of Seventy-Six. Multiple pine, ash, and oak trees were snapped and uprooted along the path of the tornado.

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
Ida1.8 miles11
Williams Creek (historical)2.1 miles10
Snow2.5 miles11
Aaron2.7 miles11
Marlow2.8 miles10
Upchurch3.3 miles11
Decide3.3 miles11
Waterview (historical)3.3 miles11

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 Seventy SixAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7457796The 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 509034. 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.