BlockBays, Kentucky
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Taulbee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41310. It stands on Wells Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seitz quadrangle. It stands 889 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1951 USGS Seitz quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Seitz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
114 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Bays between 1997 and 2020, burning about 4,274 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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 burning | 63 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 July 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 3 May 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2014 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PUNCHEON CREEK RD |
| 9 April 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 9 April 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2011 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HWY 30 EAST |
| 7 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
6 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bays in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 4 heavy rain, 1 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2009 | Flood | Bays | $1,000,000 | Flood water was up to the top of the lockers in Rousseau Elementary School. Water was also in homes near the school as well as a grocery store. The Breathitt County Office of Emergency Management reported that both the school and grocery store were total losses. |
| March 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bays | - | Large limbs were blown down. |
| July 2012 | Heavy Rain | Bays | - | Two inches of rain fell in a 30 minute period in Bays. |
| September 2012 | Heavy Rain | Bays | - | Four inches of rain fell in 24 hours in Bays. |
| July 2011 | Heavy Rain | Bays | - | An estimated 5 inches of rain had fallen in Bays between approximately 11 am and 7 pm. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Bays | - | Two and a half inches of rain fell in an hour in Bays. |
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.
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 Bays | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14690067 | 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 507464. 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.