BlockBear Fork, Kentucky
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Robinson Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41572. It stands on Big Rock Branch of Bear Fork. The Survey maps it on the Pikeville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 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 Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Whitesburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Vergie quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
- 1954 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:24000
- 1992 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
320 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Bear Fork (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 27,015 acres in total. None started naturally. 79 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 | 119 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 79 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 79 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 42 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 4 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 396 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 175 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | RAYS BRANCH |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Card (historical) | 2.0 miles | 18 | |
| Penny | 2.6 miles | 18 | |
| Esco | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Douglas | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Robinson Creek | 3.1 miles | 18 | |
| Virgie | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Frogtown (historical) | 3.8 miles | 18 | |
| Pigeon | 3.9 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337492. 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.