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Tanner, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Magnolia-Upton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42776. It stands on Chestnut Fork. The Survey maps it on the Tonieville quadrangle. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Tanner within Larue County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Tanner between 1999 and 2019, burning about 274 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWONDERLAND RD.
25 September 2008Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 March 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 December 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 October 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCATLETT FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Larue County

Storms near this place

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tanner in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 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
March 2022Flash FloodTanner-Hawkins Roads was closed due to flood waters from Walters Creek flowing over it.
August 2021Flash FloodTanner-Tanner Road was closed due to water over the roadway.
July 2020Flash FloodTanner-Fast moving water was flowing over Hawkins Road at Dye Creek.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindTanner-A Kentucky state official reported trees down on the road near the intersection of Milby Lane and Hawkins Road.
April 2013Flash FloodTanner-The public reported water flowing over Cruse Road, located 1 mile north of Maxine. Nearby, at around the same time, a spotter reported water flowing over Parker Grove Road. An unofficial report from the public mentioned that around 5 inches of rain fall within a 2 hour period over an isolated location near Magnolia.

Every storm recorded in Larue 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
Keith (historical)1.5 miles11
Mathers Mill2.3 miles15
Boundary Oak2.9 miles8
Maxine3.1 miles11
In The Bark of Wonderland (historical)3.7 miles11
South Buffalo4.4 miles8
Buffalo4.6 miles8
Magnolia5.0 miles9

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 TannerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7683629The 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 509184. 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.