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Wago, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Albany census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42602. It lies near Petty Knob. The Survey maps it on the Albany quadrangle.

Wago within Clinton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Wago between 1998 and 2017, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking1
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
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 April 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryFOX FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wago: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Albany QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Bald Rock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Clinton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wago in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
May 2010Flash FloodWago$100,000Numerous roads across the county were closed due to flash flooding. A total of seven to ten inches of rain fell across Clinton county from May 1-2.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWago$10,000There was damage to an outbuilding near Albany.
February 2019Flash FloodWago-Dickens Chapel Road was closed due to flooding.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindWago-Local law enforcement reported tree limbs down due to severe thunderstorm winds.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWago-The county Emergency Manager reported numerous trees down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Clinton 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
Five Springs1.3 miles12
Browns Crossroads1.7 miles12
Abstons Corner1.8 miles12
Highway1.9 miles12
Snow2.1 miles11
Ida2.2 miles11
Hopkins (historical)2.5 miles12
Willow Grove (historical)2.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 509299. 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.