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Allen City, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Martin-Allen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41601. It stands on Hatcher Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harold quadrangle. 182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 643 feet above sea level.

Allen City within Floyd County

Population over time

3 figures

Allen City grew from 150 to 182 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2000150
2010193+43 (+29%)
2020182-11 (-6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

220 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Allen City between 1997 and 2020, burning about 6,655 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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 burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined52
Arson/incendiarism48
Recreation and ceremony27
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBANNER
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATER
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRACKER BOTTOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Allen City: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F-1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working 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
Beaver Junction0.4 miles16
New Allen0.5 miles16
Dwale1.0 miles16
Colliver1.0 miles16
Banner1.6 miles16
Sloan1.7 miles17
Arkansas1.9 miles16
Watergap2.1 miles18

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 Allen CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1007894The 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 485866. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.