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Skaggstown, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millerstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42726. The Survey maps it on the Clarkson quadrangle.

Skaggstown within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Skaggstown between 1997 and 2019, burning about 508 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/undetermined14
Debris and open burning9
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism2
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
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONE OAK ROAD
2 May 2018Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUAIL HOLLOW
4 April 1997Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINDIAN CLIFF
24 April 2014Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDOWNS SCHOOL ROAD
2 April 2011Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTIMBERLAND FIRE
19 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2013Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRAYSON SPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skaggstown in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindSkaggstown$75,000Amateur radio reported that a double wind trailer was blown across the road on Rock Creek Road.
January 2023Flash FloodSkaggstown-Flooding was observed on Jesse Skaggs Road.
January 2023Flash FloodSkaggstown-Water was observed over the roadway at the intersection of Jesse Skaggs Road and Hickory Flats Road.
June 2014HailSkaggstown-A spotter reported high winds and ping pong sized hail. This storm was the only one during the whole afternoon that briefly acquired supercell characteristics.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindSkaggstown-A spotter reported several trees uprooted and nickle sized hail.

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
Higdon0.7 miles12
Rock Creek1.5 miles12
Fragrant1.7 miles12
Peonia2.1 miles12
Johnson Crossroads2.5 miles12
Snap2.7 miles12
Grayson Springs2.7 miles12
Meredith3.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122598890The 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 509069. 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.