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Wonnie, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Trace Branch. The Survey maps it on the White Oak quadrangle. It stands 814 feet above sea level.

Wonnie within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

159 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Wonnie between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,091 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony30
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryST ROUTE 1081
20 August 2007Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 July 2013Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 460-1081 INTERSECTION
27 June 2012Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHIGH ROCK
6 May 2015Recreation and ceremony22 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROCK LICK
5 May 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryROCK LICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wonnie in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWonnie-A tree was reported to have been blown down at the Morgan/Magoffin County line, along US-460.
October 2022Thunderstorm WindWonnie-Trees were reported to have been blown down along KY-460, near the Morgan County line.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindWonnie-An amateur radio operator reported a wind gust of 53 mph in Wonnie. He also reported the 0.26 inches of rain had fallen in about 30 minutes at his location.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindWonnie-Trees down.
January 1999HailWonnie-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Bloomington0.8 miles12
Edna1.1 miles12
Harper2.3 miles12
Elsie2.3 miles12
Bethanna2.8 miles12
Cisco3.2 miles12
Maggard3.2 miles15
Kernie3.7 miles12

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 WonnieAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8032092The 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 509400. 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.