Buckhorn, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Emmalena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41722. It stands on Cane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vest quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Buckhorn within Knott 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.

1891 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1914 USGS Troublesome quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Vest quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Hazard quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Vest quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

128 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,664 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Arson/incendiarism	33
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
20 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	12 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 August 2008	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JOHNSON LI
9 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2008	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
6 April 2018	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	ORCHARD BR.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Knott 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
Grigsby (historical)	1.3 miles	17
Decoy	3.5 miles	17
Baker Camp (historical)	4.9 miles	17
Elmrock	5.0 miles	17
Big Branch (historical)	5.6 miles	16
Bearville	6.2 miles	16
Vest	7.0 miles	17
Fisty	8.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2337583. 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.