BlockCooksburg, Kentucky
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40445. It lies near Barnett Valley. The Survey maps it on the Johnetta quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS London quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS London quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Johnetta quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Winchester quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Somerset quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
172 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Cooksburg between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,459 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 101 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 | 101 |
| Debris and open burning | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | POPLAR GAP |
| 19 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 7 August 2007 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | DRY |
| 7 August 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 17 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 85 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | not named |
| 5 July 2010 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Kentucky Division of Forestry | SIMON HILL FIRE |
| 28 June 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.1 acres | Daniel Boone National Forest | POND 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooksburg in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2024: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooksburg | $20,000 | Numerous trees down near Route 1004. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooksburg | - | Rockcastle 911 reported a tree down on Big Cave Road, near the community of Orlando. |
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cooksburg | - | A tree was blown down in the Crooked Creek community (Crooked Creek Road) in the vicinity of Cooksburg. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511506. 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.