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Spanglin, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Sandy Hook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41171. It lies near Fannin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sandy Hook quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.

Spanglin within Elliott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

98 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Spanglin between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,182 acres in total. None started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
7 August 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 7
5 July 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryMOBILE HOM
24 June 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2010Debris and open burning130 acresKentucky Division of ForestryB.L. LEWIS
26 April 2009Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elliott County

Storms near this place

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spanglin in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSpanglin$2,000Trees were blown down and onto power lines along KY-173, leading to a temporary road closure.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSpanglin-Multiple trees were blown down along Devils Fork Road.
April 2015HailSpanglin-Vehicles had to pull over due the hail.

Every storm recorded in Elliott 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
Devil Fork (historical)1.4 miles10
The Ridge2.6 miles10
Little Sandy2.7 miles10
Lytten2.7 miles10
Wyett3.2 miles11
Faye3.7 miles10
Wells Creek (historical)4.0 miles10
Bascom4.1 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 SpanglinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7573097The 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 509100. 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.