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Davisport, Kentucky

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Inez census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41262. It stands on Horsepen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Inez quadrangle.

Davisport within Martin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

299 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Davisport between 1997 and 2020, burning about 15,587 acres in total. None started naturally. 73 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 burning120
Arson/incendiarism73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined70
Recreation and ceremony30
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
5 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTOMAHAWK
22 September 2008Debris and open burning25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
2 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryINEZ MOUNTAIN
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 August 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
14 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin 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 Davisport: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Inez SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Martin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Davisport in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2012: 1 hail, 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
March 2012Tornado (EF2)Davisport$2,000,000The storm damage survey team from the Jackson Weather Office determined that a tornado exited Johnson County and entered Martin County at about 725 pm EST, 4 miles west of Davisport. The tornado had weakened to EF-2 strength by the time it entered Martin County. The tornado tracked east-northeast across Martin County and exited the county and state of Kentucky just east of Warfield at around 738 pm EST. A two story brick building and several huge trees were blown down in the town of Davella as the tornado passed by just to the north. The tornado then caused damage to the second story of a home in Debord at 732 pm EST. The tornado also caused significant damage in eastern Martin county near the communities of Beauty and Lovely around 738 pm EST. ||The tornado was on the ground for a total of 48 miles in the state of Kentucky and 49 miles total.
April 2001HailDavisport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Martin 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
Davella2.6 miles16
Tomahawk2.6 miles16
Debord2.9 miles16
Stidham3.7 miles17
Inez4.3 miles16
Castle (historical)5.2 miles17
Milo6.1 miles17
Job6.8 miles17

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 Q122555258The 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 507822. 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.