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South, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Caneyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42754. It lies near Crowder Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bee Spring quadrangle.

South within Grayson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

19 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of South between 1997 and 2015, burning about 894 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
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony1
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 April 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 March 2012Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKEY CEMETE
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 March 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLIGHTHOUSE
18 March 2000Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 March 2001Equipment and vehicle use50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names South in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
May 2025HailSouth-Ping pong ball sized hail was observed in southwest Grayson County along Shrewsbury Road near Pine Ridge Drive.

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
Sadler2.6 miles13
Windyville3.6 miles13
Shrewsbury3.6 miles12
Moutardier6.2 miles15
Ready6.4 miles13
Peth6.6 miles12
Anneta7.0 miles15
Conoloway8.3 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 503891. 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.