Benito, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Upper Clover Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40849. It stands on Kelly Branch Clover Fork. The Survey maps it on the Nolansburg quadrangle. It stands 1,401 feet above sea level.

Benito within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1887 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1916 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:48000
1919 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

122 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Benito between 1997 and 2020, burning about 16,854 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KARST ROBBINS
17 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOBSTER BRANCH
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 June 1999	Arson/incendiarism	66 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 May 2020	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALL CEMETERY RD
3 May 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	RIVER RIDGE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Ridgeway	0.2 miles	23
Gano	0.3 miles	23
Highsplint	0.7 miles	23
Shields	0.8 miles	23
Colts	1.7 miles	23
Louellen	2.0 miles	23
Short Town	2.3 miles	23
Nolansburg	2.6 miles	23

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 Benito	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4888082	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 510554. 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.