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Beauty, Kentucky

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Warfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41203. It stands on Right Fork Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kermit quadrangle. It stands 653 feet above sea level.

Beauty within Martin County

On record in Beauty

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 26 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

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Beauty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,078 acres in total. None started naturally. 142 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/incendiarism142
Debris and open burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined54
Recreation and ceremony26
Fireworks5
Other causes4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
25 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryOLD KERMIT GRADE SCHOOL
23 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryEMILY CREEK ROAD
22 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryMARROWBONE JUNCTION
21 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
12 September 2002Smoking1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 August 2012Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryPARSLEY BRANCH
22 August 2008Recreation and ceremony15 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Beauty: 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 Roadcut Clay BedClayProspect

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beauty in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2011: 4 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2004Thunderstorm WindBeauty$10,000Two trees were blown down near the junction of Route 40 and Highway 2031. Trees took down power lines, leaving around 1,000 people without power.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBeauty$5,000A tree fell on a house and a utility pole blew down on another residence on Lower Poplar Fork, off of Highway 2031.
April 2011Flash FloodBeauty-The road was impassable near the intersection of Hwy 2031 and KY Hwy 40.
August 2010Flash FloodBeauty-Some people had to be rescued from their homes due to rising flood waters in Beauty.
April 2005Flash FloodBeauty-Three and a half to four feet of water flowing over Highway 2031.
February 2004Flash FloodBeauty-Route 40 was flooded near the community of Beauty.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindBeauty-Severe thunderstorm winds blew several trees down in the area.
October 2006HailBeauty-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Warfield1.2 miles26
West Lovely (historical)2.1 miles26
Lovely2.2 miles26
Pilgrim3.0 miles26
Hode3.2 miles25
Threeforks5.5 miles26
Inez5.6 miles16
McClure5.8 miles26

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 BeautyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4877859The 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 486602. 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.