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Solway, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Summit census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42732. It stands on Kane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Big Clifty quadrangle.

Solway within Hardin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

18 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Solway between 2002 and 2020, burning about 183 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
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
8 April 2013Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryST PAUL FIRE
25 April 2009Recreation and ceremony65 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2020Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOM DUVALL LANE
12 April 2014Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySOUTH GRANDVIEW CHURCH ROAD
1 April 2014Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLAUREL RIDGE
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hardin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Solway in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 tornado. 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 2011Tornado (EF0)Solway-An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-2 tornado with maximum wind speeds between 120 and 125 mph touched down in Grayson county along Danny Sadler Rd. The tornado was weakening as it crossed into Hardin county. Here is was rated an EF-0 with estimated winds of 80 mph. Multiple trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado lifted just west of Burkhead Ln.

Every storm recorded in Hardin 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
Pierce Mill1.8 miles18
Limp2.3 miles18
Hardin Springs4.3 miles10
Vertrees5.7 miles18
Summit6.2 miles18
Howe Valley6.5 miles17
Eastview6.8 miles18
White Mills Junction8.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509091. 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.