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Dabolt, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Annville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40447. It stands on Seals Branch. The Survey maps it on the Parrot quadrangle. It stands 1,286 feet above sea level.

Dabolt within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Dabolt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,236 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
Arson/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2008Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryPEOPLE'S FIRE
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreDaniel Boone National Forest448
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burning8.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
10 September 1999Smoking2.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dabolt: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Indian Creek MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dabolt in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDabolt-A citizen observed trees downed northwest of Annville.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Seven Pines (historical)0.1 miles14
Pine Flat (historical)1.4 miles14
Cornelius1.9 miles14
Bond2.6 miles13
Annville3.2 miles13
Olin3.3 miles13
Flatton (historical)3.6 miles14
Peoples3.6 miles14

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 DaboltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690285The 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 516769. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.