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Victory, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the East Bernstadt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40729. The Survey maps it on the Parrot quadrangle.

Victory within Laurel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

136 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Victory between 1997 and 2019, burning about 2,748 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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 burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPEOPLE'S FIRE
14 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance146 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 July 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 July 2014Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHAZEL GREEN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurel County

Storms near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Victory in 6 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindVictory$30,000Trailer blown off its foundation. One tree down.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindVictory$1,000Trees were blown down onto power lines in the 5600 block of KY-490.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindVictory$1,000Large limbs down. Flagpole blown to the ground and wrought iron pole damaged on porch.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindVictory-Few trees down. Large limbs also reported down in the road.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindVictory-Few trees and large limbs down in the northern portion of the county.
September 2004Flash FloodVictory-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laurel 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
The Hazel Patch (historical)1.1 miles15
Oakley1.1 miles15
Green Mountain (historical)2.1 miles15
Mershons2.6 miles15
Symbol2.7 miles15
Cornette2.7 miles14
Atlanta2.9 miles15
Greenmount3.5 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516183. 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.