Steff, Kentucky

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.

• 1925 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1971 USGS Spring Lick quadrangle1:24000
• 1981 USGS Beaver Dam quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Steff between 1999 and 2017, burning about 318 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Jugville
• Spring Lick
• Do Stop
• Caneyville
• Pine Knob
• Post

Every fire recorded in Grayson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steff in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 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.

Every storm recorded in Grayson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507321. 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.