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Van Cleave, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shiloh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42020. The Survey maps it on the Hico quadrangle.

Van Cleave within Calloway 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Van Cleave between 1997 and 2013, burning about 187 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony10
Debris and open burning4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
16 September 2008Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 June 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBETHEL RO
7 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 April 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 April 1998Debris and open burning100 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Van Cleave: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Ball Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Murray MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R.L. Wiggs Farm PitBall ClayProspect
Sugar Creek ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Calloway County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Van Cleave in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindVan Cleave1 hurt, $15,000A man was injured when thunderstorm winds caused a tree to fall on his vehicle on Rockwood Rd.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindVan Cleave$25,000The damaging winds that struck Murray continued east across the eastern portion of the county. Large trees from 12 to 18 inches in diameter were uprooted off Kentucky 464 in northeast Calloway County. Power lines were down. A double-wide mobile home was overturned on Kentucky 94 east of Murray. Nearby, the top of a silo was blown off.

Every storm recorded in Calloway 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
Bethel (historical)1.9 miles12
Temple Hill (historical)2.1 miles12
Shiloh2.5 miles13
Outland (historical)3.2 miles13
Pottertown3.4 miles13
Almo3.5 miles12
East Murray (historical)3.5 miles13
Independence (historical)3.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509271. 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.