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Burnwell, Kentucky

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the South Williamson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41514. It stands on Lower Stringtown Branch. The Survey maps it on the Delbarton quadrangle. It stands 709 feet above sea level.

Burnwell within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Burnwell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,150 acres in total. None started naturally. 70 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/incendiarism70
Debris and open burning65
Fireworks31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 2007Other causes4.0 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBALL FORK
29 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySTONE
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPETERS FORK RD 2
25 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresWest Virginia Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryGOODY
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism81 acresWest Virginia Division of ForestryTAYLORVILLE #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnwell in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBurnwell-Trees and limbs were blown down in the Burnwell community.
July 2000Thunderstorm WindBurnwell-Trees down at Narrow's Branch. One tree with a reported 5 to 5 1/2 foot diameter. Large road signs down.
April 2015HailBurnwell-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Stringtown0.3 miles22
Hardy1.2 miles24
Toler1.6 miles23
Narrows Branch (historical)1.9 miles24
Meathouse (historical)2.3 miles24
Aflex2.4 miles22
Belfry2.5 miles19
Sharondale2.7 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 BurnwellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5000266The 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 507626. 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.