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Snow, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It lies near Huddleston Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek Dam quadrangle. It stands 1,014 feet above sea level.

Snow within Clinton County

On record in Snow

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

46 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Snow between 1998 and 2019, burning about 690 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 April 2014Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUBBARD HOLLAR
7 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryFOX FIRE
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Snow: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Albany QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snow in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2008Tornado (EF1)Snow$2,000The second touchdown of a tornado in with a storm that moved across Clinton County produced EF-1 damage in a path just under 1/2 mile. Four utility poles were snapped along U.S. Highway 127, as were several large diameter trees in a narrow path on a wooded hill to the east of the highway.
March 2025Flash FloodSnow-State Garage Road was closed.
June 2019FloodSnow-Water flowed over Miller Road near Highway 90.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindSnow-State officials reported trees down on State Garage Road.
July 2008HailSnow-Nickel-sized hail was reported on Highway 90 north of Albany.
April 2007HailSnow-no account filed

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
Upchurch1.4 miles11
Ida2.0 miles11
Williams Creek (historical)2.1 miles10
Wago2.1 miles12
Hopkins (historical)2.5 miles12
Seventy Six2.5 miles11
Marlow3.0 miles10
Cartwright3.2 miles10

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 SnowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7548131The 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 509088. 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.