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Burna, Kentucky

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42028. The Survey maps it on the Burna quadrangle. 219 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Burna within Livingston County

Population over time

2 figures

Burna fell from 257 to 219 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010257
2020219-38 (-15%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 19 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

14 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Burna between 1999 and 2016, burning about 314 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor16 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 March 2009Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined150 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 March 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Livingston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Burna: 6 prospects, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, Germanium, Gallium. 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
Dyers Hill Fluorspar DepositsFluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Cadmium, Germanium, GalliumPast Producer1950, 1956
Lasher ProjectFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect1970
Hutson Zinc MineZincPast Producer
Larkin Croft ProspectFluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect
B.S.Watson ProspectFluorine-FluoriteProspect
BonanzaFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1902, 1903
Dyers Hill MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1955
Klondike MineFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1950
Old Dell Robertson ProspectFluorine-FluoriteProspect
W.H.Null ProspectFluorine-FluoriteProspect

Every working recorded in Livingston County

Storms near this place

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burna in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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 2018Tornado (EF2)Burna$175,000The tornado touched down in a very rural area along Highway 763, just north of Dyer Hill. Near the end of the damage track, a well-built two-story home was moved off its basement foundation. All basement walls were cracked, and water lines were broken. This is where the tornado reached its peak intensity of 125 mph. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted. Four vehicles were destroyed. One vehicle was rolled 50 feet. A few outbuildings were destroyed.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindBurna$30,000A line of thunderstorms produced pockets of wind damage in northern Livingston County. In downtown Salem, windows were blown out of a business. Large trees were uprooted and power lines were down in and near Salem. A large tree was down at Burna.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBurna$8,000A thunderstorm downburst with estimated peak winds of 80 MPH struck the small community of Burna. The damage area, measuring about 1/2 mile long and 1/4 mile wide, was on the north side of Burna and U.S. Highway 60. About a dozen large trees were uprooted or broken, and mainly minor damage occurred to at least 5 homes and businesses. A small building, about 15 by 40 feet, was moved off its foundation.
May 2007Flash FloodBurna-Water was reported over roads in the Burna area.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindBurna-Two trees about a foot in diameter were blown down along U.S. Highway 60.
April 2011HailBurna-no account filed
May 2010HailBurna-no account filed
January 2002HailBurna-no account filed
May 2002HailBurna-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Livingston 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
Mullikin Junction2.3 miles19
Hampton2.7 miles21
Lemen Landing3.6 miles19
Miller Landing4.4 miles21
Vicksburg4.4 miles19
Birdsville4.9 miles21
Moxley Landing5.0 miles19
Mitchell Landing5.7 miles19

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 BurnaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4999575The 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 488441. 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.