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Creekville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ashers Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40914. It stands on Flat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Creekville quadrangle.

Creekville within Clay 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Creekville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,626 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 97 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/incendiarism97
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSAWDUST
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestBOWENS TRASH
24 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSUGAR
24 September 2008Arson/incendiarism270 acresDaniel Boone National ForestBRUSHY FIRE
17 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestTREE
7 August 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestPEABODY HOUSE
29 August 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National ForestSUGAR
29 June 2007Natural21 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSPRINGS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Creekville in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007HailCreekville-Quarter sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Spring Creek1.1 miles13
Marcum2.3 miles13
Queendale4.7 miles13
Peabody4.8 miles13
Plank5.2 miles13
Ashers Fork5.4 miles13
Big Creek5.9 miles13
Botto6.8 miles13

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 Q122547826The 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 511633. 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.