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Trinity, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Tollesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41179. It lies near Wilson Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Manchester Islands quadrangle.

Trinity within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Trinity between 1997 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. None 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 burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryCROOKED CREEK
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10230
1 May 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resources10105
5 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCABIN CREEK
30 April 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2004Smoking1.0 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
24 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresOhio Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Trinity: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cabin Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Maysville KilnCalciumProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trinity in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2010: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 4 deaths. 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 2004Flash FloodTrinity4 killedA car was washed off of Crooked Creek Road in the northern part of the county. Four people were swept away into the creek and lost their lives.
June 1997Flash FloodTrinity$10,000An isolated thunderstorm dropped an estimated 4 inches of rain causing several roads to be washed out.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindTrinity$5,000Trees were knocked down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindTrinity$1,000Several trees were reported down countywide due to damaging thunderstorm winds.
July 2001Flash FloodTrinity-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which flooded roads and caused creeks to overflow their banks.
July 2001Flash FloodTrinity-Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused high water on roads and creeks to overflow their banks.

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
Sand Hill0.5 miles15
Irwin2.7 miles14
Fearisville3.0 miles14
Cottageville4.4 miles11
Pence4.9 miles14
Covedale5.1 miles14
Concord6.8 miles15
Poplar Flat7.0 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 505499. 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.