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Dalesburg, Kentucky

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Canoe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41721. The Survey maps it on the Mistletoe quadrangle.

Dalesburg within Breathitt 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

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Dalesburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,039 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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 burning27
Arson/incendiarism26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony7
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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresDaniel Boone National ForestSTINGER
24 September 2007Debris and open burning10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
6 May 2008Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresDaniel Boone National Forest7 ACRE FIRE
6 May 2008Debris and open burning7.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
4 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryBUFFALO #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Breathitt County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dalesburg in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 3 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindDalesburg$3,000Severe thunderstorm winds damaged much of a garage and porch roof from a home in the area.
August 2014Flash FloodDalesburg$1,000Flash flooding of Freeman Fork caused Freeman Fork Road to be impassable.
May 2004Tornado (F0)Dalesburg-An F0 tornado, embedded within straight-line wind, touched down briefly.
August 2003HailDalesburg-Three quarter inch hail was reported by a co-operative observer.
June 2003Flash FloodDalesburg-Water covered Kentucky Highway 315.
September 2003HailDalesburg-Three quarter inch hail was reported at Long's Creek from a co-operative observer.
July 1996HailDalesburg-no account filed

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
Morris Fork2.9 miles12
Crockettsville4.8 miles13
Beech5.8 miles14
Talbert6.7 miles13
Sebastians Branch7.1 miles13
Houston7.1 miles12
Altro8.4 miles13
Canoe8.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 511703. 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.