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Static, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It lies near Cedar Knob. The Survey maps it on the Moodyville quadrangle. It stands 1,004 feet above sea level.

Static within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

32 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Static between 1999 and 2019, burning about 567 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning16
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2

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
20 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAY FIRE
10 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 August 2002Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 June 2012Railroad operations and maintenance90 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDEEP MINE
8 May 2000Arson/incendiarism274 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
21 April 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestry968 FIRE
23 March 2015Debris and open burning3.1 acresTennessee Division of ForestryGREENBRIAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Static: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrenceSphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrence

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Static in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindStatic-There were trees down on Beatty Creek Road.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindStatic-The Nashville, TN WFO conducted a storm survey in Pickett county, TN and Clinton county, KY. The survey found that a microburst produced straight line winds of 80 mph and damage on both sides of the state line.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Cedar Knob0.4 miles11
Maupin (historical)1.1 miles11
Bug2.6 miles11
Jones Mill2.6 miles11
Huntersville2.7 miles12
Beech Bottom (historical)3.2 miles11
Concord (historical)3.3 miles11
Rolan3.4 miles11

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 StaticAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7604125The 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 504285. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.