BlockTaffy, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Heflin-Beda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42347. It stands on Slovers Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Ridge quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1907 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500
- 1909 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Pleasant Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Evansville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Pleasant Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
- 1991 USGS Tell City quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
23 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Taffy between 1998 and 2020, burning about 336 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | 764 FIRE |
| 27 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BELLS FIRE |
| 7 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 April 1998 | Debris and open burning | 11 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 March 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 March 2020 | Smoking | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SMOKING FIRE |
| 4 March 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 31 March 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
5 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Taffy in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taffy | - | A tree was down on Kentucky 1414 near Hartford, Kentucky. |
| November 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Taffy | - | Trained spotters estimated wind gusts around 52 knots. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Taffy | - | Golf-ball sized hail fell from a small supercell that moved across Ohio and then Breckenridge Counties. |
| March 2008 | Flash Flood | Taffy | - | Sections of Highway 1414 were covered by six inches of water. |
| April 2008 | Flood | Taffy | - | Flood waters forced the evacuation of some homes in Beaver Dam. Numerous roads in the county were closed due to high water. A high water rescue was performed on Belltown Road north of Hartford. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 504917. 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.