BlockBeaver, Kentucky
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Grethel-Teaberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41604. It stands on Tackett Fork. The Survey maps it on the McDowell quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 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 Mc Dowell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Mc Dowell quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
354 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Beaver between 1997 and 2020, burning about 24,327 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 | 137 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 79 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 45 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
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 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 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 |
| 28 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 49 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beaver in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2011 | Tornado (EF1) | Beaver | $10,000 | The storm survey team confirmed an EF1 tornado touched down 2.7 miles south of Teaberry in extreme southeastern Floyd county Monday April 4th. The estimated max winds were around 90 MPH. The path length was 0.4 miles with a path width of 100 yards. The tornado touched down on Smokey Branch and destroyed a trailer home and downed close to 100 trees. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Beaver | $10,000 | Home flooded at Teaberry. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Beaver | $5,000 | A resident of Beaver witnessed baseball size hail smashing out the windshield of her car. The hail also caused significant damage to the roof of her brother in laws home, resulting in holes in the the structure through which the sky could be seen. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver | $2,000 | Trees and powerlines were reported to have been blown down in the Beaver Community, along KY-979. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver | $2,000 | Trees were blown down on Highway 979 along Mud Creek. |
| September 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver | - | A tree was blown down and across KY 979. |
| April 2007 | Flash Flood | Beaver | - | Residents stranded in their homes along Route 979. |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver | - | Large tree limbs were down. |
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 Beaver | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q17508782 | 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 486604. 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.