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Turkeytown, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Crab Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40419. It lies near Millers Knob. The Survey maps it on the Brodhead quadrangle. It stands 938 feet above sea level.

Turkeytown within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

60 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Turkeytown between 1998 and 2020, burning about 788 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism6
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
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 May 2001Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 April 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2010Debris and open burning32 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

3 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turkeytown in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 3 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindTurkeytown$50,000A porch and part of a roof was torn off of a home. An outbuilding was flattened, and a cattle trailer was overturned. Fifteen to twenty trees were downed along a quarter mile stretch of Edwards Road. Winds were estimated at 90 to 95 mph by a NWS remote survey.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindTurkeytown$30,000A roof was torn off of a double-wide mobile home and thrown southeast. The resident stated winds lasted for 2 to 3 minutes. NWS remote survey estimated winds at 90 mph.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindTurkeytown-A tree fell down along Kentucky Route 39, south of Crab Orchard.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Holdams Mill (historical)1.0 miles12
Peoples Corner (historical)2.0 miles7
Gentontown (historical)2.6 miles12
Thompson Store (historical)2.8 miles12
Chapel Gap (historical)2.9 miles7
Dog Walk3.1 miles7
Crab Orchard3.2 miles7
Cedar Creek (historical)3.5 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 TurkeytownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7855190The 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 509246. 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.