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Typo, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41719. It stands on First Creek. The Survey maps it on the Krypton quadrangle. It stands 1,037 feet above sea level.

Typo within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

764 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 764 fires within 5 miles of Typo between 1993 and 2020, burning about 28,833 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 161 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 burning288
Missing data/not specified/undetermined230
Arson/incendiarism161
Recreation and ceremony65
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2

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 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTIDHAM LN
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERIFFS COURT
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Typo: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Branch Gap ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Typo in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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 2009FloodTypo$2,000A mudslide occurred on the Highway 15 bypass filling up a culvert causing water to run across the highway.
May 2009Flash FloodTypo$2,000The public reported that 6 inches of water was running across the intersection of Hwy 15 and Terminal Hill Road. Two inches of water was flowing through the Wendell Ford Airport terminal.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindTypo-The department of highways reported a tree blown down just west of Hazard near Couchtown.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindTypo-Dispatch relayed a report of a tree down along Highway 80 in Hazard.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindTypo-Power lines were blown down on Couchtown Rd.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Butterfly1.2 miles13
Bonnyman1.3 miles16
Happy Valley (historical)1.7 miles16
Clemons1.7 miles16
Busy1.9 miles13
Combs2.4 miles16
Hurricane (historical)2.4 miles13
Yerkes2.4 miles13

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 TypoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7861392The 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 516091. 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.