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Tanbark, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kettle-Peytonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It lies near Guthrie Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Blacks Ferry quadrangle.

Tanbark within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

87 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Tanbark between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,034 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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/undetermined24
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism22
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2010Debris and open burning29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 2010Railroad operations and maintenance30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROBERT RIDGE
21 April 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland 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 Tanbark: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Cadmium, Germanium. 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
BurkesvilleZinc, Cadmium, GermaniumPast ProducerSphalerite
Grider MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tanbark in 1 storm report in 2016: 1 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
April 2016Thunderstorm WindTanbark-The public reported to the NWS tree limbs were down due to severe thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Kettle1.9 miles15
Littrell2.6 miles14
Bear Wallow Ridge (historical)3.0 miles14
Ellington3.2 miles8
Bow3.5 miles10
Stalcup3.6 miles14
Poplar Grove (historical)3.8 miles14
Modoc4.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509183. 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.