Blair Town, Kentucky

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Pikeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41501. It stands on Kinnikinnick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Broad Bottom quadrangle.

Blair Town within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1886 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Laynesville quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Harold quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Broad Bottom quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Broad Bottom quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Broad Bottom quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

169 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Blair Town between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,299 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 37 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	37
Recreation and ceremony	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 2019	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	IVY CREEK
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BUFFALO
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	654 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	CLARK BRANCH 2
16 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	127 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MARE CREEK
15 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SHOP BRANCH #2
12 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	WOLFPEN BRANCH

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
Broad Bottom	0.7 miles	15
Mossy Bottom	0.9 miles	15
Wagoner (historical)	1.2 miles	15
Little Floyd County (historical)	1.6 miles	15
Stanley (historical)	1.9 miles	15
Stanley Addition	2.1 miles	15
Boldman	2.2 miles	15
Big Shoal (historical)	2.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 487444. 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.