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Vanzant, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Glen Dean-Vanzant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40119. The Survey maps it on the Glen Dean quadrangle. It stands 522 feet above sea level.

Vanzant within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Vanzant between 1997 and 2012, burning about 249 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTICK RIDGE
25 April 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 April 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Debris and open burning70 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vanzant in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood, 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindVanzant$3,000Trees blew down, and a dryer was lifted and landed on a car.
March 2015FloodVanzant-State Highway 261, near its intersection with State Highway 1385, was briefly closed due to high water.
April 2011Heavy RainVanzant-A spotter from Askin, KY reported 3.55 inches of rain.

Every storm recorded in Breckinridge 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
Rockvale2.0 miles13
Dempster3.1 miles13
Glen Dean3.8 miles13
Falls of Rough5.0 miles11
Tar Fork5.4 miles13
McQuady6.7 miles13
Axtel7.2 miles13
Hinton Hills8.1 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 VanzantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7915284The 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 509275. 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.