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Crown, Kentucky

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Whitesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41858. It lies near Loggy Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Mayking quadrangle.

Crown within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

209 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Crown between 1997 and 2020, burning about 8,256 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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 burning103
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Recreation and ceremony25
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
25 September 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryWHITCO HIL
22 September 2001Debris and open burning3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOWAN
23 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crown in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2012Thunderstorm WindCrown$25,000Power lines were blown down 2 miles northwest of Whitesburg in the Sand Lick and Smoot areas.
December 2013FloodCrown$1,000Flooding caused a culvert on KY 931 to become blocked. Debris on the roadway made the road impassable.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindCrown-Trees were blown down and onto Hampton Branch Road near Whitesburg.

Every storm recorded in Letcher 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
Bellcraft1.3 miles17
Marlowe1.4 miles17
Smoot Creek (historical)1.5 miles17
Van1.7 miles17
West Whitesburg (historical)2.0 miles18
Whitco2.2 miles18
Whitesburg2.3 miles18
Southdown2.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 516839. 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.