Black Creek, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Clay City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40312. It lies near White Rock Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Levee quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Black Creek within Powell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1892 USGS Beattyville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1950 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Levee quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

80 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Black Creek (historical) between 1998 and 2020, burning about 723 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Recreation and ceremony	22
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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
29 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
3 August 2002	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	COPPERAS C
17 June 2007	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 June 2015	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FIFE LICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Powell County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Black Creek (historical): 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	213 Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Drake 01	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Powell 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
Virden	1.6 miles	12
Waltersville	1.8 miles	12
Powell Valley	2.1 miles	12
Piggville (historical)	2.1 miles	12
Clay City	2.2 miles	12
Paint Creek (historical)	2.4 miles	12
Westbend	2.5 miles	12
Old Clay City Road (historical)	3.1 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2420699. 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.