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Day, Kentucky

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Whitesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41858. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Whitesburg quadrangle.

Day within Letcher County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

119 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Day between 1997 and 2020, burning about 11,050 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism14
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
8 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
30 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 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
20 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
31 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOWAN
24 August 2012Debris and open burning1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryCOWAN
23 August 2008Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Letcher County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Day: 2 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Gordon Lewis SandpitSilicaProspect
Pine Mountain Gap ShaleClayProspect
Whitesburg Mill QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Whitesburg MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Letcher County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Day in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 deaths. 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
July 2022Flash FloodDay3 killedMultiple reports of flash flooding were received across the eastern half of Letcher County. Some of these reports include:||01:00 AM EST - Pictures show a car forced into a culvert pipe by flash flooding in front of the Colson Volunteer Fire Department. |05:00 AM EST - The Isom IGA is innundated to above the doorway by flash flooding along Rockhouse Creek.|05:20 AM EST - A picture showed the Appalshop at Whitesburg innundated by flash flood waters. |05:30 AM EST - A picture showed several feet of flash flood waters rushing down East Main Street (KY-15) in front of the Railroad Street Mercantile of downtown Whitesburg.|06:00 AM EST - Flash flooding was reported at 7:12 AM EST (though likely started closer to 6:00 AM EST) along KY-119 between JD Maggard Store and the Upper FD. |07:00 AM EST - The cooperative observer located 1 mile SSW of Ermine measured a 24-hour rainfall total of 3.45 inches.

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
Big Cowan (historical)0.7 miles18
Dongola1.8 miles18
Kingdom Come (historical)1.9 miles16
Oven Fork2.2 miles18
Ice2.6 miles18
Oscaloosa2.8 miles16
Eolia3.2 miles18
Whitco3.3 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 507824. 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.