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Busy, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Hazard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41723. It stands on Big Willard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Krypton quadrangle. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Busy within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

643 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 643 fires within 5 miles of Busy between 1997 and 2020, burning about 22,809 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 140 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 burning238
Missing data/not specified/undetermined195
Arson/incendiarism140
Recreation and ceremony55
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
30 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestrySHERIFFS COURT
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWOOLY FK
25 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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 Busy: 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
Branch Gap ClayClayProspect

Every working recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Busy in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
August 2022FloodBusy-Flooding was reported on the roadway on Briar Fork Circle Road near Avawam. 911 dispatch responded to the report. The flooding was shown in a video that had been posted on social media.
April 2015HailBusy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Yerkes0.6 miles13
Olivers (historical)1.1 miles13
Butterfly1.2 miles13
Hurricane (historical)1.2 miles13
Typo1.9 miles13
Dunraven2.0 miles13
Campbell (historical)2.6 miles13
Little Beech (historical)2.6 miles14

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 BusyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5002233The 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 511097. 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.