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Stanhope, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dixon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42409. The Survey maps it on the Nebo quadrangle. It stands 463 feet above sea level.

Stanhope within Webster 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

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Stanhope between 1997 and 2014, burning about 551 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
21 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryJUNKYARD F
9 April 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2000Railroad operations and maintenance150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanhope in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 flood. 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
March 2016FloodStanhope-Flooding of Crab Orchard Creek closed Route 270. Rainfall amounts from 1 to 3 inches were observed over 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Jolly2.6 miles13
Vanderburg3.2 miles13
Lisman3.8 miles13
Dixon5.2 miles13
Gatesville5.9 miles15
Providence6.0 miles12
Free Union7.2 miles13
Diamond7.3 miles12

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 StanhopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7598856The 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 504256. 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.