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Burfield, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Coopersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42633. It lies near Blue Hole Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Parmleysville quadrangle.

Burfield within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Burfield between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,314 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Arson/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
9 August 2008Debris and open burning149 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBIG PILOT ROCK
18 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 May 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 April 1995Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest4-H
4 April 2020Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPARMLEYSVILLE ROAD
4 April 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 April 1996Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest4-H
17 April 2001Arson/incendiarism350 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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 Burfield: 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
Coffey Mountain ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burfield in 1 storm report in 2005: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2005HailBurfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Rockybranch3.1 miles9
Barrier3.2 miles14
Oil Valley3.3 miles14
Parmleysville3.5 miles8
Griffin3.6 miles9
Coopersville3.6 miles11
Sumpter3.8 miles14
Mount Pisgah4.8 miles8

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.

Wikidata item Q122550434The 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 511072. 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.