Columbiatown, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the McCarr census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41558. It lies near Blue Spring Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Matewan quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Columbiatown within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

1887 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Warfield quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1909 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
1915 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:48000
1917 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1928 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1954 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Williamson quadrangle1:100000
1992 USGS Matewan quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Columbiatown (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23,512 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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	62
Arson/incendiarism	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Recreation and ceremony	14
Fireworks	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BOARDTREE II
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	POUNDING MILL
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
7 September 2007	Other causes	4.0 acres	West Virginia Division of Forestry	not named
5 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	BALL FORK
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
28 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	STONE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike 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
Ransom	0.1 miles	24
Board Tree	2.4 miles	24
Freeburn	2.5 miles	24
New Alma Coal Camp (historical)	2.7 miles	24
Meathouse (historical)	2.9 miles	24
Left Fork of Blackberry (historical)	2.9 miles	24
McCarr	3.3 miles	24
Nampa (historical)	3.4 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2107414. 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.