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Tannery, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Garrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garrison quadrangle.

Tannery within Lewis 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

50 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Tannery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,000 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
24 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined214 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOWER TWIN BRANCH
5 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 April 1997Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tannery in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1999Thunderstorm WindTannery$25,000Thunderstorm winds caused extensive damage to a residence.
May 2010Flash FloodTannery$1,000Road closed due to high water.
April 2025Flash FloodTannery-Rapidly rising water from Rock Run impacted Rock Run Road and approached nearby homes.
June 1998Flash FloodTannery-Several hours of heavy rainfall caused county creeks and streams to rise out of their banks. Evacuations occurred in Tannery.
June 2009HailTannery-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Upper Bruce (historical)2.7 miles14
Rugless3.8 miles8
Buena Vista4.8 miles14
Garrison4.8 miles14
Rexton5.2 miles11
Vanceburg6.7 miles14
Kinniconick6.7 miles14
Quincy7.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509185. 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.