Anco, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Carr Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41759. It stands on Brushy Fork. The Survey maps it on the Vicco quadrangle. It stands 1,204 feet above sea level.

Anco within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1916 USGS Cornettsville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Vicco quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

504 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 504 fires within 5 miles of Anco between 1997 and 2020, burning about 17,918 acres in total. None started naturally. 97 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 burning	237
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	134
Arson/incendiarism	97
Recreation and ceremony	28
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
29 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MONTGOMERY CREEK
29 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JEFF
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Wiscoal	0.6 miles	16
Sassafras	1.7 miles	16
Carr Fork (historical)	1.8 miles	16
Clear Fork (historical)	2.9 miles	16
Lotts Creek (historical)	2.9 miles	16
Irishmans (historical)	3.4 miles	18
Amburgey	3.4 miles	16
Cordia	3.6 miles	16

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 Anco	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4753088	The 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 507395. 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.