Blue John, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Burnside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42519. It lies near North Cave Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hail quadrangle. It stands 1,168 feet above sea level.

Blue John within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1890 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1894 USGS Williamsburg quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1952 USGS Hail quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Hail quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Blue John between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,986 acres in total. None started naturally. 36 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
Arson/incendiarism	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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
26 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	CEMETERY
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	OLE HIGHWAY 27
30 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	BUCK KNOB FIRE II
3 June 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	JEEP
27 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JERU KNOB
8 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	POWER LINE
3 May 2018	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	CURT POND
11 May 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	7.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	MCSWAIN CIRCLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pulaski 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
Alpine	2.0 miles	12
Omega	2.0 miles	12
Hargis	2.5 miles	17
Sloans Valley	2.9 miles	12
Hail	4.6 miles	17
Northfield	5.4 miles	11
Keno	5.5 miles	12
Tateville	5.7 miles	12

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 Blue John	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4929297	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 510803. 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.