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Barnetts Creek, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Oil Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41256. It stands on Pickle Fork. The Survey maps it on the Oil Springs quadrangle. It stands 633 feet above sea level.

Barnetts Creek within Johnson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

207 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Barnetts Creek between 1997 and 2020, burning about 3,997 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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 burning78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Recreation and ceremony41
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
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
6 September 2010Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLOW BRANCH ROAD
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLITTLE MUD LICK RT. 201
25 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
15 September 2016Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryVERN HORN DR.
14 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Barnetts Creek: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Silica. 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
Stffordsville Sandstone RoadcutSilicaProspect
Volga ShaleClayProspect
Whippoorwill Branch ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnetts Creek in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2012Thunderstorm WindBarnetts Creek-A tree was blown down on Tiny Branch.

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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
Staffordsville2.0 miles17
Manila2.2 miles17
Volga3.0 miles17
Oil Springs3.5 miles17
Denver3.8 miles17
Paintsville4.0 miles17
Sitka4.3 miles17
Collista4.3 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 Barnetts CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4861658The 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 507457. 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.