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Uno, Kentucky

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Horse Cave census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42749. The Survey maps it on the Park quadrangle. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Uno within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Uno between 1999 and 2012, burning about 85 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
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Smoking16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremony20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 July 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryYODER FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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 Uno: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Horse Cave QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Hart County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uno in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2022Thunderstorm WindUno-There were numerous trees down and a garage damaged along Highway 218.
May 2016Flash FloodUno-The Hart County emergency manager reported state highway 218 was flooded east of Horse Cave.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindUno-State officials reported trees down in the area.

Every storm recorded in Hart 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
Seymour2.0 miles11
Wigwam (historical)2.2 miles11
LeGrande2.4 miles11
Rex3.1 miles11
Bunnell Crossing3.1 miles11
Horse Cave4.4 miles12
Three Springs4.5 miles11
Hardyville4.9 miles12

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 UnoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7897197The 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 509262. 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.