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Stinnett, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Mozelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40868. It stands on Stinnett Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hoskinston quadrangle. It stands 909 feet above sea level.

Stinnett within Leslie 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

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Stinnett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,980 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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 burning79
Arson/incendiarism63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Recreation and ceremony17
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
5 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Recreation and ceremony799 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Debris and open burning90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Leslie County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stinnett in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 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 2002Flash FloodStinnett$50,000Heavy rains fell on March 17 and March 18 causing homes to be evacuated and several roads to be flooded.
August 2009Flash FloodStinnett$15,000Highway 421 was reported to have been washed away near the intersection with Highway 406. A driver who was not aware that the road was washed drove his car into the flood waters at this location and had to take refuge in a tree after his car became flooded.
May 2002HailStinnett$15,000Hail created dents on a few vehicles.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindStinnett$4,000Two trees were blown down by thunderstorm wind gusts on Highway 406. Two more trees were blown down on Highway 421.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindStinnett$3,000no account filed
May 2007Thunderstorm WindStinnett$1,600Two trees down on KY-421 near Stinnett.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindStinnett-Trees were blown down and onto Hwy 421.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindStinnett-A tree was blown down on Hwy 421.
August 2009Flash FloodStinnett-Army Trail Road was reported to be flooded and flood water was also reported to be over a bridge in this area.
August 2009FloodStinnett-A man continues to be stranded in a tree in Stinnet and emergency workers are having trouble getting to him. Highway 421 in Cutshin is closed due to flooding.
April 2007Flash FloodStinnett-Greasy Creek Road closed.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindStinnett-Tree over a road near Hoskinston.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindStinnett-A couple of trees blown down.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindStinnett-One tree was down.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindStinnett-Trees were blown down across Cherokee Lane and Turkey Foot Road.
August 1997Thunderstorm WindStinnett-Trees were downed.
June 2009HailStinnett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Leslie 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
Hoskinston0.9 miles14
Wendover3.0 miles14
Asher3.2 miles14
Essie3.6 miles14
Hyden5.0 miles14
Cinda5.5 miles14
Chappell6.0 miles14
Mozelle6.1 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 StinnettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7617468The 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 515717. 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.