Comargo, Kentucky

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Knot census division. It lies in ZIP code area 42649. It stands on Roaring Paunch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barthell quadrangle. It stands 1,132 feet above sea level.

Comargo within McCreary County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1934 USGS Barthell quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Barthell quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Corbin quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Comargo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,302 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 40 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
Arson/incendiarism	40
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	150 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
30 September 2007	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
24 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	BACKBONE
19 September 2007	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area	BRUSHPILE
17 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Daniel Boone National Forest	MOUNTAIN VIEW
12 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
22 August 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Daniel Boone National Forest	TRAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McCreary 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 Comargo: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Highway 1363 Roadcut	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in McCreary 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
Blue Heron	0.5 miles	9
Barthell	1.1 miles	9
Worley	1.6 miles	9
Oz	2.4 miles	9
Smith Town	2.6 miles	9
Yamacraw	2.7 miles	9
Big South Fork (historical)	2.7 miles	9
Hickory Grove	2.9 miles	16

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.

Wikipedia article on Comargo	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5150556	The 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 511482. 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.