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Urban, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Kincaid Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Urban within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Urban between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,972 acres in total. None started naturally. 116 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 burning168
Arson/incendiarism116
Missing data/not specified/undetermined85
Recreation and ceremony25
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
29 September 2007Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKINCAID
27 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHOOKER BRANCH
24 September 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOWN BRANCH
14 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2007Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Urban in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindUrban-Trees were blown down on Highways 638 and 687.
June 2009Flash FloodUrban-Highways 638 near Manchester, School House Branch off Highway 11 near Bluehole and Redbird Branch of Highway 66 were all closed due to flash flooding.
June 2009Funnel CloudUrban-The public spotted a funnel cloud at mile marker 10 on the Hal Rogers Parkway, moving toward Manchester.
May 2002HailUrban-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Gray Fork (historical)1.0 miles13
Hooker1.6 miles13
Pleasant Valley (historical)2.6 miles13
Sidell2.7 miles13
Grace2.9 miles13
Lebanon (historical)3.2 miles13
Pigeonroost3.6 miles13
Sibert3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516167. 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.