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Carbon Glow, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Blackey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41832. It stands on Right Fork Doty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blackey quadrangle. It stands 1,293 feet above sea level.

Carbon Glow within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

273 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Carbon Glow between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,601 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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 burning115
Missing data/not specified/undetermined93
Arson/incendiarism38
Recreation and ceremony19
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning80 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCARBON GLOW
4 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning90 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2007Debris and open burning9.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryELK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carbon Glow in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCarbon Glow-A county official reported a tree blown down onto Carbon Glow Road near Carbon Glow.

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Jeremiah1.5 miles18
Carcassonne2.1 miles18
Letcher2.4 miles18
Isom2.9 miles18
Blackey3.1 miles18
Indian Bottom (historical)3.4 miles18
Sackett3.9 miles18
Marshal Branch (historical)4.1 miles18

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 Carbon GlowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5037914The 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 507649. 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.