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Weed, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Gradyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42728. It stands on Weed Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Gradyville quadrangle. It stands 1,043 feet above sea level.

Weed within Adair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

27 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Weed between 1998 and 2017, burning about 326 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarism35 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 April 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 April 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 April 2014Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKELTNERTOWN
12 April 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
1 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.1 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adair County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weed in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindWeed-There was a tree down on an unknown road.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindWeed-A tree fell across Edmonton Road near Weed-Keltner Road.
March 2012HailWeed-Extensive hail damage was surveyed from several miles southwest of Columbia through Columbia in Adair County. Hail damage was maximized in Columbia where a home had hail break through the roof. A Wal-Mart store had 160 skylights damaged. According to the survey, hail damaged almost every windshield from the Metcalfe/Adair county line through Columbia.
January 2022HailWeed-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adair 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
Prices Creek (historical)1.9 miles9
Nell2.1 miles9
Gradyville3.1 miles9
Toria3.8 miles9
Taters Chapel (historical)3.9 miles9
Sparksville4.2 miles9
Keltner4.4 miles9
Firkin (historical)4.9 miles9

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 WeedAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7979322The 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 509331. 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.