Blackburn Bottom, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Raccoon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Bevins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Meta quadrangle.

Blackburn Bottom within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500
1918 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Meta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

127 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Blackburn Bottom between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,050 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Arson/incendiarism	22
Recreation and ceremony	15
Natural	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	130 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WINN BRANCH
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
2 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	58 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 July 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Bevins Branch (historical)	1.0 miles	20
Meta	1.2 miles	20
Grassy Branch (historical)	2.8 miles	20
Old Sydney (historical)	3.0 miles	19
Zebulon	3.1 miles	20
Upper Dick (historical)	3.8 miles	19
Tom Ray (historical)	4.3 miles	20
Raccoon	4.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122544911

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 509900. 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.