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Barthell, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stearns-Whitley City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42649. It stands on Icecamp Branch. The Survey maps it on the Barthell quadrangle. It stands 1,106 feet above sea level.

Barthell within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Barthell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,282 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 54 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/incendiarism54
Debris and open burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestCOON
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHWY 1651
24 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestPINE KNOT
24 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBACKBONE
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHAYNES

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barthell: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Highway 1363 RoadcutClayProspect

Every working recorded in McCreary County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barthell in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBarthell-Trees were blown down at Worley.

Every storm recorded in McCreary 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
Worley1.0 miles9
Comargo1.1 miles9
Blue Heron1.5 miles9
Smith Town1.6 miles9
Yamacraw2.2 miles9
Hickory Grove2.2 miles16
Big South Fork (historical)2.4 miles9
Hill Top2.5 miles9

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 BarthellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4865187The 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 510422. 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.