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Crockettsville, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Canoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. It stands on Joe Branch. The Survey maps it on the Canoe quadrangle.

Crockettsville within Breathitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

191 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Crockettsville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 14,654 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning82
Arson/incendiarism54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined415 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
20 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBOWLING CREEK RD.
24 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 June 2012Debris and open burning14 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBARWICK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crockettsville in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2021: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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
July 2001Thunderstorm WindCrockettsville$2,000Trees were blown down onto homes and roadways.
March 2021FloodCrockettsville-Water is covering the road at mile marker 1 on Hwy 315 east of Morris Fork.
February 2021FloodCrockettsville-Water is covering the road at mile marker 1 on Hwy 315 east of Morris Fork.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCrockettsville-Numerous trees, large limbs and power lines were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Breathitt 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
Talbert1.9 miles13
Morris Fork2.4 miles12
Sebastians Branch2.7 miles13
Beech3.0 miles14
Canoe3.8 miles13
Houston4.0 miles12
Dalesburg4.8 miles13
Altro5.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511646. 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.