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Bonnyman, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41719. It stands on Little Wolf Pen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hazard North quadrangle. It stands 981 feet above sea level.

Bonnyman within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

727 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 727 fires within 5 miles of Bonnyman between 1993 and 2020, burning about 29,417 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 146 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 burning266
Missing data/not specified/undetermined235
Arson/incendiarism146
Recreation and ceremony62
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTIDHAM LN
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined56 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERIFFS COURT
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Recreation and ceremony30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bonnyman: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Branch Gap ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bonnyman in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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
December 2013FloodBonnyman$5,000Flooding washed out a bridge on Typo Road south of Bonnyman.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBonnyman-A tree was blown down in the 4300 block of KY-15 in the Bonnyman community.
June 2011Flash FloodBonnyman-Lower Second Creek Rd was closed northwest of Hazard.

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Happy Valley (historical)0.5 miles16
Clemons0.5 miles16
Typo1.3 miles13
Blue Diamond1.7 miles16
Airport Gardens1.8 miles16
Butterfly1.9 miles13
Combs2.0 miles16
Harveyton2.4 miles16

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 BonnymanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4942518The 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 487672. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.