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Woolcott, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Augusta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41004. It stands on Goose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Woolcott within Bracken County

On record in Woolcott

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Woolcott between 2002 and 2004, burning about 21 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
Recreation and ceremony1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
29 February 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 February 2002Recreation and ceremony11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bracken County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woolcott in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2018Thunderstorm WindWoolcott$250,000Four to five barns were severely damaged or destroyed on Augusta-Berlin Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindWoolcott$10,000Roofing was peeled off of a garage and numerous small branches and two trees were downed in the area due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindWoolcott$2,000Two large cedar trees were knocked down on the AA Highway.
August 2012Flash FloodWoolcott$1,000Route 1159 was covered by water from a stream being out of its banks due to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Bracken 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
Bladeston0.8 miles8
Cumminsville1.0 miles8
Rock Springs2.4 miles11
Gertrude2.5 miles8
Wellsburg2.7 miles11
Johnsville2.9 miles13
Brooksville3.9 miles8
Berlin4.2 miles6

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 WoolcottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8033781The 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 509408. 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.