Crafts Fork, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Salyersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41465. It stands on Boardtree Fork. The Survey maps it on the Seitz quadrangle.

Crafts Fork within Magoffin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1889 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1899 USGS Salyersville quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1951 USGS Seitz quadrangle1:24000
1957 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jenkins quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Seitz quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Irvine quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

263 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Crafts Fork between 1997 and 2020, burning about 9,042 acres in total. None started naturally. 50 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	111
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64
Arson/incendiarism	50
Recreation and ceremony	31
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
4 September 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	MIDDLE PUNCHEON
25 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
10 September 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	PARKWAY
13 August 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
8 June 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 June 2012	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	GOSE BRANC
27 June 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	HIGH ROCK
30 May 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Magoffin 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
Craft Fork (historical)	0.0 miles	13
Foraker	1.0 miles	13
Fritz	2.3 miles	13
Hendricks	2.5 miles	14
Seitz	2.7 miles	13
Puncheon (historical)	3.8 miles	13
Ova	4.3 miles	13
Lakeville	4.3 miles	14

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 Q122559963

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 2745325. 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.