Calloway Branch, Kentucky

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Phelps census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41553. It stands on Poor Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jamboree quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Calloway Branch within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 20 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.

1886 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1890 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Grundy quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1914 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500
1917 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1954 USGS Jamboree quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Jamboree quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

130 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Calloway Branch (historical) between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,180 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	66
Arson/incendiarism	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BOARDTREE II
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALL FORK
28 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STONE
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
18 May 2000	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 May 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 April 2008	Debris and open burning	90 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 April 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SENG BRANCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coleman	1.5 miles	20
Left Fork of Blackberry (historical)	2.0 miles	24
Phelps	3.0 miles	24
Jamboree	3.5 miles	20
Board Tree	3.6 miles	24
Head of Johnson Creek (historical)	3.7 miles	19
Simers	3.9 miles	19
McVeigh	4.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120546. 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.