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Beefhide, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Jenkins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41537. It stands on Johns Fork. The Survey maps it on the Jenkins West quadrangle.

Beefhide within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

220 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Beefhide between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,589 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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 burning108
Arson/incendiarism43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony27
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning65 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
9 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2007Debris and open burning40 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryLONG FORK VEIRGE
7 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR #2
29 September 2019Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryDUSTY RD.
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJOE'S BR.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher 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 Beefhide: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Jenkins MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beefhide in 1 storm report in 2019: 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
May 2019HailBeefhide-A trained spotter and local media reported quarter to golf ball sized hail northeast of Jenkins, including along U.S. Highway 23.

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Lick Fork (historical)1.3 miles19
McRoberts3.2 miles18
Dunham3.6 miles18
Adamson3.7 miles19
East Jenkins3.8 miles19
Burdine3.8 miles19
Gaskill3.9 miles19
Hemphill4.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507483. 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.