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Chestnut Gap, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Booneville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Mill Town Branch. The Survey maps it on the Booneville quadrangle.

Chestnut Gap within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

396 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Chestnut Gap between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,187 acres in total. None started naturally. 78 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 burning185
Missing data/not specified/undetermined113
Arson/incendiarism78
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking2
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
8 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2009Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryUPPER WOLF CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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 Chestnut Gap: 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
Crane Fork Valley ShaleClayProspect

Every working recorded in Owsley 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
Chestnut Neighborhood (historical)0.0 miles14
Eversole1.1 miles14
Sugar Camp Neighborhood (historical)1.3 miles14
Booneville1.5 miles14
Lerose2.8 miles12
Cowcreek2.9 miles12
Southfork3.1 miles14
Fish Creek Neighborhood (historical)3.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511333. 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.