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Booth, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Campton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41365. It stands on Smoky Fork. The Survey maps it on the Zachariah quadrangle.

Booth within Wolfe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

150 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Booth between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,275 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony31
Arson/incendiarism21
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 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPINE RIDGE
21 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUFFALO TRAIL
16 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMULLINS POINT
16 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGRIFFEN BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wolfe 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 Booth: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mill Creek StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wolfe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Booth in 1 storm report in 2021: 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 2021Thunderstorm WindBooth-Two trees were reported down across Sandy Ridge Road, blocking the road, near the community of Booth.

Every storm recorded in Wolfe 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
Torrent2.1 miles13
El Park (historical)2.2 miles13
Grannie2.6 miles12
Zachariah2.8 miles13
Rogers3.3 miles13
High Falls3.5 miles12
Leeco3.5 miles13
Mullins Point (historical)3.8 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 510853. 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.