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Colliver, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Martin-Allen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41601. It stands on Eel Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harold quadrangle.

Colliver within Floyd County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

226 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Colliver between 1997 and 2020, burning about 7,052 acres in total. None started naturally. 61 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined49
Recreation and ceremony30
Smoking2
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
9 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBANNER
8 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryIVY CREEK
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning23 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning50 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism20 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPRATER
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism15 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCRACKER BOTTOM
23 September 2007Debris and open burning60 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Floyd 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 Colliver: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Allen PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
F-1 MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Floyd County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colliver in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 2 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindColliver$3,000A few trees were blown down along Hwy 1428.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindColliver$1,000Trees and utility lines were blown down on Oklahoma Branch Road just south of Allen City.

Every storm recorded in Floyd 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
Arkansas0.9 miles16
Allen City1.0 miles16
Beaver Junction1.2 miles16
New Allen1.5 miles16
Martin1.8 miles17
Banner1.9 miles16
Sloan2.0 miles17
Dwale2.0 miles16

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 Q122553758The 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 507732. 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.