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Auxier, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Prestonsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41602. It lies near Jockey Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Prestonsburg quadrangle. 715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 761 feet above sea level.

Auxier within Floyd County

Population over time

2 figures

Auxier grew from 669 to 715 between 2010 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
2010669
2020715+46 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

210 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Auxier between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,760 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Recreation and ceremony42
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOLEMAN BRANCH
9 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryROUTE 302
9 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryABBOTT MTN
7 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

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 Auxier: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Clay. 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
East Point RoadcutClayProspect
Levisa Fork Sandstone PitSilicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auxier in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindAuxier$5,000Several trees were uprooted in and near a trailer park in Auxier.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindAuxier$2,000Garage blown off.
December 2013FloodAuxier$1,000Routes 321 and 3 at the entrance of Dewey Lake were closed due to a land slide.
February 2003Thunderstorm WindAuxier$1,000Trees were down and shingles were blown off of roofs.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAuxier-A tree was blown down onto a powerline near the community of Auxier.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindAuxier-County dispatch reported a tree blown down by thunderstorm winds on KY-302 between one half and one mile before Dewey Dam.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAuxier-Several trees and limbs were blown down in the Auxier community.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindAuxier-Large tree limbs were blown down.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAuxier-A tree was blown down in Auxier.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAuxier-Trees were blown down along Kentucky Highway 321.
July 2008HailAuxier-no account filed

Every storm 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
Bays Branch1.1 miles17
Cliff4.0 miles17
West Prestonsburg4.7 miles17
Whitaker4.8 miles17
Lancer5.0 miles18
Prestonsburg5.0 miles17
Bull Creek5.1 miles18
Bonanza6.4 miles17

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 AuxierAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4827275The 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 486154. 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.