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Smith Town, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stearns-Whitley City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42647. It lies near American Legion Knoll. The Survey maps it on the Barthell quadrangle.

Smith Town within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Smith Town between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,680 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 64 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
Arson/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2008Natural5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestYAHOO ARCH
8 September 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestRAILROAD
30 September 2007Debris and open burning150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCOON
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1651
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPINE KNOT
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary 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 Smith Town: 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
Highway 1363 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Smith Town in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
March 2020Thunderstorm WindSmith Town-Dispatch reported trees were blown down on Pine Ridge Road just southwest of Whitley City.

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Stearns1.5 miles16
Worley1.5 miles9
Barthell1.6 miles9
Yamacraw1.9 miles9
Hill Top2.0 miles9
Hickory Grove2.2 miles16
Big South Fork (historical)2.3 miles9
Revelo2.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 517065. 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.