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West Garrett, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Wayland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41640. It stands on Esteps Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wayland quadrangle.

West Garrett within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

314 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of West Garrett between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,018 acres in total. None started naturally. 58 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 burning157
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Arson/incendiarism58
Recreation and ceremony39
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWEBB ST
13 September 2019Debris and open burning12 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCLARKS BR
10 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Garrett in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 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 2025Flash FloodWest Garrett-The Floyd County Sherriff reported flash flooding over Salt Lick Road (KY-2029) around the 700 block, causing the road to be impassable.
May 2009Flash FloodWest Garrett-Streams were flowing over roads and bridges.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Welco Station0.2 miles17
Garrett0.4 miles17
Hueysville (historical)0.9 miles17
Porter Junction0.9 miles17
Bosco1.0 miles17
Lackey1.2 miles17
Northern1.9 miles17
Midas1.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122559249The 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 506454. 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.