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Stacy, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Dice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41367. It stands on Noble Branch. The Survey maps it on the Noble quadrangle. It stands 830 feet above sea level.

Stacy within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

447 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of Stacy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 22,161 acres in total. None started naturally. 119 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 burning181
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Arson/incendiarism119
Recreation and ceremony21
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
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryAIRPORT WAY RD.
24 September 2008Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stacy in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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 2025HailStacy-The Perry County Emergency Manager reported golf ball-sized hail along Noble Branch Road just off KY-476.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindStacy-A tree was blown down near Rowdy.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindStacy-Dispatch reported that trees were blown down in Boone Ledge.
July 2000FloodStacy-Minor flooding was reported along Lost Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Miller (historical)2.0 miles15
Dice2.9 miles16
Jones (historical)2.9 miles16
Engle3.4 miles13
Rock Fork (historical)3.4 miles16
Ary4.0 miles16
Sixteen (historical)4.2 miles16
Mudlick (historical)4.9 miles13

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 StacyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7595996The 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 504214. 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.