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Trapp, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Southeast Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40391. It stands on Kings Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hedges quadrangle.

Trapp within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

14 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Trapp between 2001 and 2020, burning about 74 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
22 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryRED BIRD LANE
26 April 2001Debris and open burning35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 March 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 March 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIDDEN VALLEY RD.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trapp in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2022: 4 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindTrapp-Trees were blown down along Log Lick Road in rural portions of southeastern Clark County.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindTrapp-Four large trees were downed in Trapp.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindTrapp-Clark County law enforcement reported trees down due to severe thunderstorm winds in the town of Trapp.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindTrapp-A tree was downed and blocking Highway 89.
March 2012HailTrapp-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Midway (historical)0.5 miles15
Snowden (historical)1.0 miles15
Mina1.6 miles15
Rightangle1.6 miles15
Log Lick2.3 miles15
Pine Ridge (historical)2.3 miles15
Clarksville (historical)2.5 miles15
Rabbit Town2.6 miles15

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 TrappAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21197747The 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 509229. 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.