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Bearville, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Emmalena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41740. It stands on Sandlick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carrie quadrangle. It stands 1,079 feet above sea level.

Bearville within Knott County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

327 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Bearville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 18,778 acres in total. None started naturally. 82 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined63
Recreation and ceremony27
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
3 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2007Recreation and ceremony12 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 September 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMONTGOMERY BR.
1 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott County

Storms near this place

4 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bearville in 4 storm reports between 2016 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBearville-Law enforcement reported multiple trees blown down onto KY-1087.
August 2022Flash FloodBearville-Media reports water flowing over Big Branch Ball Road near the community of Emmalena.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindBearville-Department of Highway officials reported numerous trees blown down from Talcum to southeast of Hindman.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindBearville-Several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Knott 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
Big Branch (historical)1.0 miles16
Emmalena2.4 miles16
Tina2.6 miles16
Montgomery (historical)2.8 miles16
Fisty3.0 miles16
Carrie3.2 miles16
Vest3.7 miles17
Ritchie4.1 miles16

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 BearvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690071The 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 507468. 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.