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Couch Town Neighborhood, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Cowcreek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41351. It stands on Rockhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mistletoe quadrangle. It stands 873 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Couch Town Neighborhood within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Couch Town Neighborhood (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,603 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism54
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestWHOOPLAREA 2
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestWHOOPFLAREA
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest4 CORNERS
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBISHOPS BEND II
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSTINGER
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism54 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBISHOPS BEND
18 August 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestKUDZU
6 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley 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
Mistletoe0.1 miles13
Rockhouse Neighborhood (historical)0.5 miles13
Couch Fork Neighborhood (historical)0.6 miles13
Whoopflarea2.8 miles13
Sebastian3.6 miles13
Lucky Fork3.9 miles13
Ricetown5.5 miles12
Indian Creek Neighborhood (historical)5.6 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.

Wikipedia article on Couch Town Neighborhood (historical)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5175942The 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 2416565. 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.