Baldrock, Kentucky
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Keavy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40744. It stands on Ben Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sawyer quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1952 USGS Sawyer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Sawyer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
90 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Baldrock between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,102 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 58 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 58 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | CADILLIAC |
| 5 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.5 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | AUGER SPRINGS |
| 29 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | WHIPPOORWILL |
| 14 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 108 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | WHIPPOORWILL |
| 1 September 2011 | Natural | 8.2 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | CAMPBELL BRANCH |
| 18 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | AUGER |
| 14 July 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Daniel Boone National Forest | LINE DANCE |
| 10 July 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | BOAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baldrock in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldrock | $10,000 | There were large limbs blown down onto highway 192. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldrock | $4,000 | Trees were down and blocking Highways 1193 and 192. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldrock | - | A tree was blown down and onto London Dock Road. |
| July 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldrock | - | An NWS Storm Survey revealed a roughly 1500 foot swath of snapped and uprooted trees paralleling Kentucky Highway 192 near the intersection with Kentucky Highway 1193 west of Keavy. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Baldrock | - | Three quarter inch diameter hail fell in Rockcastle Springs. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Baldrock | - | no account filed |
| May 2017 | Hail | Baldrock | - | no account filed |
| May 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baldrock | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vox | 4.5 miles | 16 | |
| Hightop | 5.9 miles | 14 | |
| Keavy | 6.6 miles | 14 | |
| Dorthae | 9.5 miles | 17 | |
| Hopewell | 10.2 miles | 17 | |
| North Corbin | 10.3 miles | 17 | |
| Pine Grove | 10.9 miles | 14 | |
| Camp Grounds | 11.3 miles | 17 |
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 Q122543948 | 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 510371. 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.






