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Warren, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Trosper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40906. It stands on Blue Hole Branch. The Survey maps it on the Artemus quadrangle. It stands 1,063 feet above sea level.

Warren within Knox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

152 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Warren between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,239 acres in total. 2 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Arson/incendiarism33
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
5 September 2007Debris and open burning225 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOLDENS CREEK
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOAL PORT #1
29 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOLDEN CREEK STRIP
16 August 1999Arson/incendiarism36 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2014Natural80 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPUNKIN PATCH
7 May 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knox County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warren in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2011Flash FloodWarren$75,000Dispatch reported that several feet of water was flowing over KY 255 and that the road had been closed as a result of the flooding. The flood water had also moved homes off of their foundations around Barbourville.
July 2019Flash FloodWarren$6,000Dispatch reported flash flooding from Kayjay Camp Road in Kayjay to Jonestown Road near Wheeler. Both roads were impassable as water entered residences.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindWarren$1,000A tree was blown down along KY Route 225 near Warren.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWarren-Knox county dispatch reported trees blown down onto KY-225, near the intersection with Warren Camp Road, in the community of Warren.
February 2022FloodWarren-KY-225 was blocked due to flooding in the area at mile marker 4, near the community of Kayjay.

Every storm recorded in Knox 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
Kayjay0.7 miles18
Wheeler1.9 miles18
Trosper2.8 miles17
East Jellico (historical)4.0 miles17
Avis (historical)4.3 miles17
Brush Creek (historical)4.7 miles17
Davis Bend (historical)5.3 miles17
Artemus5.5 miles17

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 WarrenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7969982The 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 506234. 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.