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Webster, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1928 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Irvington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40176. The Survey maps it on the Irvington quadrangle. It stands 584 feet above sea level.

Webster within Breckinridge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Webster between 1998 and 2011, burning about 188 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
25 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 March 2002Debris and open burning16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 March 2007Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 March 2009Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breckinridge County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Webster in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWebster-Trees were blown down across highway 333.
May 2010Flash FloodWebster-Multiple roads were closed countywide due to flood waters, including KY 333 between mile markers 15 and 16, KY 690 between the 16 and 17 mile markers, and KY 2199 between the 1 and 2 mile markers.
July 2006Flash FloodWebster-Flash flooding was reported along Cook Ridge Road.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindWebster-Trees and power lines were downed.
May 2003HailWebster-no account filed

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
Irvington3.0 miles15
Clifton Mills3.0 miles17
Lodiburg3.6 miles17
Basin Spring3.7 miles16
Raymond3.7 miles15
Mystic5.5 miles17
Frymire5.8 miles17
Bewleyville6.0 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 WebsterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7978866The 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 506341. 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.