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Teddy, Kentucky

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dunnville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42539. It stands on Price Creek. The Survey maps it on the Phil quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Teddy within Casey County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Teddy between 1998 and 2017, burning about 623 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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/undetermined13
Debris and open burning10
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
30 June 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 May 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2002Railroad operations and maintenance35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined45 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Casey County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Teddy in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindTeddy-There were trees down on Rough Ridge Road and Dry Fork Ridge.
June 2018FloodTeddy-There was a report of high water on highway 910, but it was still passable.
February 2012HailTeddy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Casey 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
Evona1.9 miles7
Phil2.5 miles7
Luttrell (historical)3.0 miles7
Labascus3.4 miles7
Dunnville3.9 miles9
Windsor3.9 miles7
Rubert Ford4.1 miles7
Evans Ford4.2 miles7

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 TeddyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7693962The 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 509193. 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.