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Amburgey, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Carr Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41773. It stands on Left Fork Trace Fork. The Survey maps it on the Hindman quadrangle.

Amburgey within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

425 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Amburgey between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,775 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 63 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 burning216
Missing data/not specified/undetermined110
Arson/incendiarism63
Recreation and ceremony26
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
8 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burning20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2017Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2007Debris and open burning15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amburgey in 1 storm report in 2023: 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 2023HailAmburgey-County highway department reported approximately quarter-sized (1 inch) hail near Amburgey.

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Irishmans (historical)1.1 miles18
Smithsboro (historical)2.2 miles18
Carr Creek2.6 miles18
Cody (historical)2.9 miles18
Carr Fork (historical)2.9 miles16
Littcarr3.0 miles18
Anco3.4 miles16
Wiscoal3.5 miles16

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 Q122553832The 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 507393. 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.