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Ashlock, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Kettle-Peytonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42717. It stands on Ashlock Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Dale Hollow Dam quadrangle.

Ashlock within Cumberland County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

80 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Ashlock between 1998 and 2017, burning about 1,128 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism23
Debris and open burning20
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 July 2012Naturalunder an acreKentucky Division of ForestryJUNGLE
23 June 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 April 2010Debris and open burning29 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 April 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLEONARD WATSON FIRE
12 April 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryROCK SPRINGS RD
11 April 2007Debris and open burning31 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 March 2000Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cumberland County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ashlock: 10 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Oil Shale, Uranium, Oil Shale, Zinc. 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
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrenceSphalerite
Deep Well-Sphalerite OccurrenceZincOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence
Outcrop Sample For UraniumUranium, Oil ShaleOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cumberland County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashlock in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 tornado. 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
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Ashlock$50,000This small tornado destoryed one outbuilding and tore roof panels off another before crossing the state line into the Pearidge area of Tennessee just west of Dale Hollow Lake.

Every storm recorded in Cumberland 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
Peytonsburg2.2 miles14
Poplar Grove (historical)3.4 miles14
Littrell4.6 miles14
Bear Wallow Ridge (historical)5.0 miles14
Stalcup5.5 miles14
Judio5.6 miles14
Kettle6.6 miles15
Tanbark7.2 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 Q122539695The 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 507420. 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.

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.