BlockCamp Creek, 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 41568. It stands on Owen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hurley quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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 Hurley quadrangle1:24000
- 1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Hurley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1977 USGS Pikeville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
156 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Camp Creek (historical) between 1995 and 2019, burning about 10,032 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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 | 63 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 43 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
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 |
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 40 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | WOODMAN CREEK RD. |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 7.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | HURRICANE CREEK |
| 21 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 46 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | FERRELL ROAD |
| 3 May 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Virginia Department of Forestry | not named |
| 1 May 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 8 April 2008 | Debris and open burning | 90 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 April 2010 | Debris and open burning | 95 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2120548. 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.