Darkmont, Kentucky

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Harlan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 40828. It stands on Bailey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Evarts quadrangle.

Darkmont within Harlan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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.

1887 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000
1891 USGS Jonesville quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
1916 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:48000
1919 USGS Nolansburg quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1935 USGS Evarts quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Evarts quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Johnson City quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Evarts quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Middlesboro quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

141 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Darkmont between 1997 and 2020, burning about 13,461 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 40 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 burning	54
Arson/incendiarism	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
17 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
15 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	LOBSTER BRANCH
15 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named
27 June 2012	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	KILDAV FIR
24 June 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Kentucky Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harlan 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
River Ridge	0.5 miles	23
Bailey Creek	0.7 miles	23
Evarts	0.8 miles	24
Woods	0.8 miles	24
Short Town	1.1 miles	23
Redbud	1.1 miles	24
Draper	1.5 miles	24
Kildav	1.7 miles	24

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 Q122594075

The 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 490598. 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.