Beverly, Kentucky
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Pineville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40913. It stands on Lawson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Beverly quadrangle. It stands 1,276 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 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.
- 1886 USGS Cumberland Gap quadrangle1:125000
- 1888 USGS Cumberland Gap quadrangle1:125000
- 1891 USGS Cumberland Gap quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1903 USGS Pineville quadrangle1:48000
- 1954 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
- 1979 USGS Beverly quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2020Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2020. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
159 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Beverly between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,084 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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 | 69 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 46 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 38 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 17 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 23 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | BUCK HOLLOW FIRE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
19 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beverly in 19 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 flood, 4 flash flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | $5,000 | Trees were blown down on Cow Fork Rd 1 mile southeast of Beverly. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | $2,000 | A tree was blown down at the intersection of Highways 66 and 2011. Power outages were reported across the county. |
| February 2018 | Flood | Beverly | $1,000 | Water was covering Mud Lick Road near Beverly. |
| June 2016 | Flash Flood | Beverly | $1,000 | Department of Highways officials reported portions of Kentucky Highway 221 and Kentucky Highway 66 across eastern Bell County impassable due to flowing water and debris. A trained spotter southwest of Beverly reported that Red Bird Creek was flowing out of its banks. This was producing a few inches of flowing water across Highway 2011 near the intersection of Mud Lick Branch Road. |
| August 2016 | Flash Flood | Beverly | $1,000 | A trained spotter observed over one foot of water flowing across Kentucky Highway 2011 southwest of Beverly. Portions of Mud Lick Branch Road as well as an upstream bridge were washed away. |
| March 2015 | Flood | Beverly | $1,000 | Water of unknown depth from Red Bird Creek was flowing across Hwy 2011. |
| December 2015 | Flash Flood | Beverly | $1,000 | Flowing water almost reached the bottom of a car door on Mud Lick Branch Road. |
| March 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | $1,000 | One tree was blown down on KY Highway 2011. |
| July 2016 | Flash Flood | Beverly | $100 | A trained spotter observed nearly seven inches of water flowing across Kentucky Highway 2011 in Beverly. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | - | A trained spotter reported one tree was blown down onto KY-2011 between MM 7 and 8, or approximately 0.1 miles south of intersection of KY-2011 with Sturgill Lane. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | - | Two trees were blown down onto Mud Lick Road near the community of Beverly. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | - | A tree was blown down at the intersection of KY-2011 and Cow Fork in the community of Beverly. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Beverly | - | A trained spotter observed water over Kentucky Highway 2011 near Beverly. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Beverly | - | A trained spotter observed water over Kentucky Highway 2011 near Mud Lick Branch Road south of Beverly. |
| April 2017 | Flood | Beverly | - | A trained spotter reported water flowing over Kentucky Highway 2011 in Beverly. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | - | Multiple large tree limbs were blown down. |
| October 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | - | A large tree was blown down near Hwy 2011 on Old House Branch. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beverly | - | Large tree branches were blown down and onto Hwy 2011. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Beverly | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Field | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Nugym (historical) | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Stoney Fork | 6.8 miles | 18 | |
| Jaybel | 7.1 miles | 18 | |
| Laurel Ford | 8.1 miles | 18 | |
| Rella | 8.5 miles | 18 | |
| Cardinal | 8.9 miles | 18 | |
| Blackmont | 9.6 miles | 18 |
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 Beverly | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4899454 | 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 510587. 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.










