Carver, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Royalton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Beetree Branch. The Survey maps it on the Salyersville South quadrangle.

Carver within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Salyersville South quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Salyersville South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

233 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Carver between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,497 acres in total. None started naturally. 48 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	99
Arson/incendiarism	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Recreation and ceremony	32
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	JIM ARNETT BRANCH
23 September 2008	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	SKAGGS
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 June 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
1 June 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carver in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 1 flash flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Carver	-	Numerous trees were blown down on Hwy 1635.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Carver	-	Highway 1635 was closed due to flood waters at Oakley. Numerous other roads throughout the county also were covered with high water.

Every storm recorded in Magoffin 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
Tiptop	2.0 miles	14
Swampton	2.4 miles	14
Sublett	2.6 miles	14
Duco	2.7 miles	14
Royalton	2.8 miles	14
Skaggs (historical)	2.9 miles	14
Galdia	3.3 miles	16
Marshallville	4.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507662. 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.