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Woodsbend, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grassy Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41472. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the West Liberty quadrangle.

Woodsbend within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

71 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Woodsbend between 1997 and 2020, burning about 450 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural1

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 August 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG
5 May 2001Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGREASY CREEK
9 April 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER LONG BRANCH
7 April 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

7 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woodsbend in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 7 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend$3,000Trees were blown down.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend$1,000A tree was blown down in Woodsbend.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend-Department of Highways officials reported a few trees blown down on Kentucky Highway 705 west of West Liberty.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend-Several trees were blown down near the intersection of Highways 705 and 3345.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend-Numerous trees were blown down, uprooted, or snapped off. Shingle damage at this location was also reported.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend-Trees were blown down along Hwy 705.
November 2005Thunderstorm WindWoodsbend-Several large limbs down on Route705 near Woodsbend.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Bonny1.1 miles14
Bear Wallow (historical)1.2 miles14
Straight Creek (historical)1.2 miles14
Twentysix2.5 miles14
Licking River2.5 miles14
Liberty Road2.6 miles14
Perry Bend (historical)2.8 miles14
Index3.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122564097The 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 516475. 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.