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Stacy Fork, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Cannel City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Stacy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Cannel City quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Stacy Fork within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

126 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Stacy Fork between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,224 acres in total. None started naturally. 27 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST ROUTE 1081
14 September 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2013Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 460-1081 INTERSECTION
5 May 2001Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stacy Fork in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindStacy Fork$50,000A tree fell on a school bus, truck, and mini van on KY 191 between mile markers 9 and 10. The vehicles appeared to be totaled.
February 2019Heavy RainStacy Fork$5,000Local media reported a mudslide on Kentucky Highway 844 south of West Liberty due to recent heavy rain.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindStacy Fork$3,000Trees were reported down near the intersection of KY 191 and KY 844 near Malone.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStacy Fork-Three trees were blown down by wind gusts estimated at 60+ mph.
March 2012Flash FloodStacy Fork-Highway 844 near Stacy Fork was flooded and impassable. The water rose over the road in less than an hour.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindStacy Fork-A spotter reported that his lawn furniture was being blown around by thunderstorm wind gusts 3 miles south of Canel City. Pea size hail was also falling when the report was called in.
May 2011HailStacy Fork-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Vance Fork (historical)2.1 miles12
Malone2.1 miles14
Panama2.4 miles14
Head of Stacy Fork (historical)2.7 miles14
Caney2.8 miles14
Holliday2.8 miles12
Upper White Oak Creek (historical)3.0 miles12
Gordon Ford3.1 miles14

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 Stacy ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7596025The 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 509116. 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.