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Vincent, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Spruce Fork. The Survey maps it on the Sturgeon quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Vincent within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

289 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Vincent between 1993 and 2020, burning about 5,566 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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 burning141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use3

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
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWILD DOG
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vincent in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 2006Thunderstorm WindVincent$8,000Several trees down blocking roads near Vincent and Travellers Rest. Also a barn was blown down and destroyed.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindVincent$2,000A 70 foot tall oak tree was blown down in Vincent.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindVincent-Social media showed a tree down along KY-399 near the old Vincent Post Office.
March 2017HailVincent-A citizen observed nickel sized hail in Vincent.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindVincent-Four eight to ten inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindVincent-Numerous trees blown down in town.
April 2005HailVincent-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owsley 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
Needmore Neighborhood (historical)0.0 miles14
Travellers Rest1.6 miles14
Moors Neighborhood (historical)1.8 miles14
Elk Lick Neighborhood (historical)1.9 miles14
Brewer Neighborhood (historical)2.8 miles14
Endee2.9 miles14
Levi2.9 miles14
Scoville3.0 miles14

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 VincentAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7931636The 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 516184. 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.