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Cobhill, Kentucky

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ravenna census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40336. It lies near Cobb Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cobhill quadrangle.

Cobhill within Estill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Cobhill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,632 acres in total. None started naturally. 29 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 burning44
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFITCHBURG RD
1 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestHALE RIDGE #1
25 May 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
17 May 2020Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryMT PARAN
9 April 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 April 2013Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryFURNACE JUNCTION ROAD
8 April 2001Arson/incendiarism30 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Estill County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cobhill: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Highway 52 RoadcutClayProspect
Tipton Ridge QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Estill County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cobhill in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2014Flash FloodCobhill$1,000Several reports were received of water around 4 feet deep flowing along Fitchburg Rd and Cobhill Rd, making them both impassable. Both roads are at higher elevations, and dispatch reported that flooding is rare at these locations.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindCobhill$1,000A tree was blown down at Cob Hill.
January 2006Thunderstorm WindCobhill$1,000Several trees down countywide. One power pole blown down one mile south of Irvine.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindCobhill-A citizen reported several trees down blocking Cobhill Road in Cobhill.
November 2013Thunderstorm WindCobhill-Multiple trees were downed on almost all roads in the county.
July 2011Heavy RainCobhill-A member of the public measured 2.6 inches of rain in Cobhill.

Every storm recorded in Estill 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
Watson (historical)1.4 miles12
Patsey1.7 miles12
Fitchburg1.7 miles12
Mountain Spring (historical)2.0 miles12
Tipton Ridge2.8 miles12
Pitts3.0 miles12
Sparks (historical)3.0 miles12
Tipton (historical)3.1 miles12

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 Q122567631The 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 511446. 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.

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.