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Burnaugh, Kentucky

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Catlettsburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41129. It stands on Prichard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burnaugh quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Burnaugh within Boyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Burnaugh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,594 acres in total. None started naturally. 56 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/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning32
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryCENTERVILLE RD
30 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
3 June 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWest Virginia Division of Forestry1190 BALENGEE BR.
8 May 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTOMS CREEK ROAD
3 May 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryRICE BRANCH ROAD
2 May 1992Debris and open burning15 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryLOCK HILL
9 April 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITES CREEK
9 April 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreWest Virginia Division of ForestryUPPER GRAGSTON CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnaugh in 1 storm report in 1997: 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
May 1997HailBurnaugh-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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
Durbin-Burnaugh (historical)0.0 miles23
Kavanaugh0.6 miles23
Durbin1.6 miles23
Lockwood3.3 miles23
Big Sandy (historical)4.8 miles21
Whites Creek (historical)5.8 miles23
Savage Branch5.9 miles23
Boltsfork6.3 miles21

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 BurnaughAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4999609The 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 488442. 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.

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.