BlockBlue Moon, Kentucky
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Grethel-Teaberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41655. It stands on Trace Fork. The Survey maps it on the Harold quadrangle. It stands 902 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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 Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Prestonsburg quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1914 USGS Laynesville quadrangle1:48000
- 1916 USGS Harold quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Harold quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Harold quadrangle1:24000
- 1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
- 1992 USGS Harold quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
353 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 353 fires within 5 miles of Blue Moon between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,850 acres in total. None started naturally. 82 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 | 140 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 82 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 77 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 51 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SHOP BRANCH |
| 9 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 23 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | PRATER |
| 23 September 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2008Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blue Moon in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Moon | $35,000 | A few trailers were damaged and many trees were snapped or uprooted. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Moon | $5,000 | Power lines were blown down at 5420 Route 2030. A tree was blown down onto a storage shed. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Blue Moon | - | Floyd County dispatch reported a tree had been blown down and was partially blocking KY-2030 in the Blue Moon community. |
| April 2008 | Hail | Blue Moon | - | Half dollar size hail was reported at Morgan Fork. |
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.
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 Moon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4929447 | 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 507533. 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.