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Bobs Creek, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Cawood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40815. It stands on Bobs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evarts quadrangle.

Bobs Creek within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

125 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Bobs Creek between 1998 and 2020, burning about 7,732 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
28 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE BRANCH FIRE
27 June 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryKILDAV FIR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan County

Storms near this place

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bobs Creek in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2023Thunderstorm WindBobs Creek-A member of the public reported a tree blown down onto KY-1556.
January 2013FloodBobs Creek-Highway 1556 was closed due to high water.

Every storm recorded in Harlan 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cawood1.1 miles24
Lenarue1.5 miles25
Mary Helen1.6 miles25
Three Point2.0 miles25
Chevrolet2.3 miles25
Farmers Mill2.5 miles25
Crummies2.6 miles24
Smith3.8 miles26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 487608. 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.