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Chestnutburg, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Burning Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40962. It stands on Chestnut Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maulden quadrangle.

Chestnutburg within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

297 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Chestnutburg between 1993 and 2020, burning about 8,788 acres in total. None started naturally. 73 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 burning130
Arson/incendiarism73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Recreation and ceremony18
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning13 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
3 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of ForestryHUCKLEBERRY FORK
25 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chestnutburg in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindChestnutburg$1,000A tree was blown down on Hwy 577 East in Chestnutsburg.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Sextons Creek1.9 miles13
Vine2.8 miles13
Mouth of Little Sextons Creek (historical)2.9 miles13
Burning Springs3.0 miles13
Shepherdtown3.6 miles13
Alger3.8 miles13
Laurel Creek3.9 miles13
Felty4.7 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122545360The 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 511340. 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.