Burtonville, Kentucky

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Tollesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41189. It stands on Buck Lick Branch. The Survey maps it on the Burtonville quadrangle.

Burtonville within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1951 USGS Burtonville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Huntington quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Morehead quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Burtonville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 190 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
24 June 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 April 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	BOAT GUNNEL
8 April 2013	Railroad operations and maintenance	70 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	FITE HOLLOW
6 April 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
21 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HAPPY HOLLOW
18 April 2016	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BEECHY CREEK
15 April 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HWY 344
1 April 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burtonville in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$100,000	On Kentucky 989 just west of Burtonville, the top third of a silo was destroyed and blown to the east toppling onto another structure. Also, two other barns were destroyed. Several large trees were blown down or uprooted in the southwestern part of the county. Also, a few large, very well constructed barns were shifted 6 to 8 feet off their foundations with the opposite walls severely buckled. One of these barns had the roof completely blown off and large sections of the siding missing. All the debris from the above barns was scattered in fields to the east. Several smaller barns in this same area were completely destroyed.\|\|Numerous trees were downed along Buck Lick Branch Road, five miles south-southeast of Tollesboro. Several homes in this neighborhood had minor damage. A brick home had the roof completely blown off. A 2 by 4 board from the roof of this house was blown approximately 100 yards to the east, piercing through a bedroom on the front of another brick house. Also, on the front of this same house, a large window facing west was blown into the house along with the front door. This allowed the wind to enter the house to do further damage. The roof was lifted but not detached. The force of the wind inside the house caused the brick foundation on the north side of the house to bulge and fail over a significant area. Debris from the house and associated shed was scattered into a field to the east of the house. Finally, a church on Mount Zion Road had a storage structure lifted up over the church and into the church cemetery. \|\|The damage was consistent with wind speeds of 80 to 90 mph.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$2,000	A few trees were downed.
May 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Burtonville	$1,000	A tree was reported down due to damaging thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Epworth	1.5 miles	11
Nashtown	2.3 miles	11
Oak Ridge (historic)	3.7 miles	8
Tollesboro	4.4 miles	11
Oak Ridge (historical)	4.5 miles	9
Glen Springs	4.8 miles	13
Petersville	5.7 miles	9
Ribolt	6.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 488483. 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.